On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 08:35 +0200, jolmstead wrote: > and my lack of expertise my wife wanted me to move all of her > OpenOffice.org files from the Linux operating system to Vista. So I > thought I could just move everything from her home directory to > the /media/disk directory and all would be good. > You're going to have to say what /media/disk refers to. A plugged in hard drive, flash drive, or some internal drive. The /media directory is used to mount removable/temporary media in, with the mounted media becoming a sub-directory inside it. e.g. If I plugged in a USB flash drive, it might be /media/usbdisk. With some media is not written to until you unmount it, at that point the contents are written, *then* it is actually unmounted. If you interrupt that process, the files aren't written. If you create a directory inside /media when there isn't actually any media mounted in there, or using a name that's different from any mounted media, you've just created an ordinary directory inside /media on the file tree. Any files inside it will still be there. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines