I saw a weird case like this once, where machine A had the drive spinning.. machine B had the drive NFS mounted, then someone (who didn't understand NFS) NFS mounted machines B's copy of the drive back to A. All was well, until machine I rebooted.. to find all of the directories (mount points) empty.
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:37:24 -0800 (PST) Bill Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis, > > The other possibility could be that you mounted a different > partition over the directory that you use as /home. > > - Bill > > --- Ben Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there a possibility you did something like: > > > > rm -rf * > > > > or... > > > > find . -type f | xargs rm -f > > > > in the wrong directory or something like that? it > > happens to everyone > > eventually, at least once. Usually because of some cut > > and paste > > maneuver gone horribly wrong or a goofy typo or because > > you forget to > > escape the crazy astarisk, spaces and/or ampersands in a > > filename. > > > > or, maybe you moved everything accidentally. try > > updating your locate > > database then use that to find the missing files. > > > > $ su - > > # updatedb > > # exit > > $ locate whatImLookingFor.txt > > > > or, maybe you renamed files or directories so that they > > start with a > > period, making them "invisible" by default. do -> 'ls > > -a' > > > > good luck, > > > > - Ben > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:46:01AM -0800, Dennis Bagley > > wrote: > > > I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately > > several times) yesterday > > > but got > > > -0- feedback from anyone. I'm still looking for > > answers because I do NOT want > > > to accidentally > > > repeat the problem. > > > > > > So anyone have answers besides "42"? > > > > > > Thanks again > > > > > > Dennis > > > > > > > > > > > > Came into my office this morning to discover data > > missing from my PC. > > > > > > I am running Ubuntu 5.04 > > > > > > On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay. I > > have a dual drive system > > > and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu (5.10) > > on the second drive - it > > > seemed to install just fine > > > and I was also able to reboot into the older version. > > I must admit that I did > > > not run any programs > > > other than email and the browser before leaving my > > office for the weekend. > > > > > > HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare - > > my virtual machine files > > > were GONE. The directory > > > where the files should have been was there but the > > files were not. > > > > > > Also missing: > > > all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox) > > > all the pop3 mail on my system > > > all of the contacts I had in Evolution > > > all the "sent" mail > > > all special email folders I had created that > > contained data. > > > > > > > > > All my other primary files appear to be intact. Ideas? > > Have I been hacked? > > > Did the the install > > > screw something up? If so, how? > > > > > > (Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work data > > is stored on the > > > server. But I did not have a backup of > > > the email and contact info and that kinda torques me.) > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > Dennis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > RLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > > Bill Cunningham > Cell: (775) 813-6892 > http://www.cunndev.net > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
