On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:54 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote:
What filesystem are you running? On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Dennis Bagley wrote: > I had about 1 year's worth of popmail, about 1/2 gig of downloads of > various sorts, > about 3 gigs of music, about 25 eBooks, all my email contacts, a Windows > virtual machine for VMWare, > All my bookmarks for Firefox. You see the pattern - basically all data > that was in /home/dennis > except all the directories still exist! just no data in them! > > Dennis > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:31 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote: > >> Here's something we haven't discussed: >> >> Assume your data is on the drive. You MUST mount the effected drive read >> only so that you don't accidentally overwrite any deleted information. >> Every bit written is a bit lost. >> >> What type of data were you storing primarily, and what do you want back? >> >> - Sebastian >> >> >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, 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 > > >
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