[RLUG] Disappearing data

[James Washer]

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 <axoibc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dennis,
> 
> The other possibility could be that you mounted a different
> partition over the directory that you use as /home. 
> 
> - Bill
> 
> --- Ben Johnson <ben at blarg.net> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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