On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:42:09PM +0000, Neil Loffhagen wrote: > This must be one of the most stupid mistakes to b made... Nope - it's the fun that's caused by having /mnt/neil be valid if the mount point is not really mounted. I've usually done the reverse - tried to backup to /mnt/backups and discovered that my nfs server wasn't mounted. This typically results in filling the root file system :-(. > I have a redhat 8 laptop and a redhat 8 server. The server has samba > shares on. I had just rebooted the laptop and went to the mnt/neil > folder and did a drag and drop of files on the local laptop to the > share. But the share was not actually mounted. I should have realised > this, as could see the share name, but no folders underneath. Once I'd > done the drag and drop the various folders disappeared from the local > drive? Guess this was doing a move rather than a copy? Of course the > folders never actually appeared on the server. It all went too quickly > as well. So now the folders seem to have all disappeared completely? > They are not on the laptop or the server? Is there any where they could > be? Looked in the trash. It's my whole Evolution setup, so I've lost > all previous mail! And here I was trying to back everything up, so > could trash the machine and build it from scratch. Now I seem to have > lost all the files I was trying to make sure were safe :( The most likely thing that I see is that you moved the files to the *directory* /mnt/neil, not the share. /mnt/neil is a directory and is valid even if nothing is mounted. If you subsequently mounted the share on /mnt/neil, then it looks like your files are gone even if they aren't. umount /mnt/neil and then look in /mnt/neil again. Move the files somewhere else, and the remount /mnt/neil and move the files to where they should have gone. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
