Thinking about this more, I think I know what happened. Last time I rebooted the server, the USB drive was off, so it was not automounted even though there is an entry in /etc/fstab. When I turned the drive on, I didn't mount it manually. So, when I started copying files to /mnt/usbdrive, I was actually copying them from one place on an internal HD to /mnt/usbdrive on the same HD and no info was actually written to the USB HD because it was not mounted to that directory. Of course, when the internal HD was formatted during Slack install, /mnt/usbdrive was formatted along with it. Doh!
Keeping my fingers crossed for "foremost" ability to recover files. --- Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I would have done (which isn't much consolation now) is unmount > the usb drive after backing up and then remount it again there (or better > yet on another computer) to verify that the backup worked. Amen, brother! Thanks. -Victor -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
