On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 13:14 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > 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: > > a) The Vista partition wasn't actually mounted when you did the copy. > In that case you should be able to unmount anything currently on > /media/disk and then see your files in the now exposed directory. > (I'm really hoping you didn't manually delete that directory. Doing > "rm -rf /media/disk" or using File Manager to delete the directory > would blow everything away.) > > b) You accidentally mounted something other than the Vista partition > there, in which case your missing files are on some other disk > partition. I am not a Vista expert but with my double booted XP - Linux the disk mouted with the Windows XP stuff is muted on /media/disk without help from me. > > ======================================================================= Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism. -- Donald Kaul ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
