2009/4/24 Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > jolmstead wrote: >> >> I don't think I was clear enough on this, but the /media/disk location was >> actually the Windows Vista partition. And, like I said, from the command >> prompt I created a folder in the root C: drive (which was /media/disk) and >> then copied everything there. I verified every thing was there from the >> command prompt using ls and then removed it from the /home/user folder. >> It >> wasn't until I booted into Vista that the data appeared to be lost. >> Nothing >> was every interrupted and I did a standard shut down and restart to get to >> Vista. Does this change anything or is all hope lost? > > /media/disk is usually a mount point that is dynamically created when an > external drive with an unlabeled partition is hotplugged, so it's a fairly > unusual location for mounting a partition on an internal disk. Presumably, > you manually created the directory and mounted the Vista partition there. > If you did any of that wrong, I can think of a couple of possibilities: > HAL does that. My XP partition gets mounted without my interference in /media/label_of_c_drive. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
