On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:19:16 -0800 (PST), Victor Snesarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Ouch! That's painful just reading that, especially since I can see myself doing the same thing! (Doh!) Good luck. Cheers, Tanner -- 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
