This is what I see when I look in the following folder, when it is unmounted: [neil@laptop neil]$ pwd /home/neil/mnt/redhat/neil [neil@laptop neil]$ ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 neil neil 4096 Dec 18 20:56 . drwxr-xr-x 3 neil neil 4096 Dec 18 20:56 .. But I can't seem to cd into either of the neil folders? Or am I misreading this? I see it as two different folders both called neil? Is this correct or am I missing something? If they are there this could be where the missing folders are? Thanks again, Neil. On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 19:23, Ed Wilts wrote: > 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
