In the installation process, did you attempt to use your home directory from your old drive as your home directory for the new installation?
I suspect the installer may have formatted a partition, but when it was reformatted, some remnants of the old partition ( i.e. directory structure) remained intact and accessible, but the files within these directories are not.
I'm no expert with file systems, but depending on which file system you formatted the partition with, I think it might be possible to recover the files that could still be on disk, just "unlinked" from the file system.
Anyone seen anything like that happen before?
Grant
On 1/5/06, Dennis Bagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I did a history | grep rm and also on xargs in my user and root. No joy - didn't happen.
And Sebastian is right in that it almost appears to be a roll back - EXCEPT all the
directories I have created since I installed this version of Ubuntu are there, just no data!
if it were truly some kind of roll back - wouldn't it have wiped them too?
I would almost suspect some kind of virus/worm but I have never heard of such an
animal on Linux. AND I don't think a virus/worm running inside of VMWare could do such damage
for a Windows VM. Besides, my virtual machine was also wiped out.
Dennis
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:51 -0800, Ben Johnson 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
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