Lost Whole Directory

[Knapp]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Bill Marcum <marcumbill at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 2010-02-13, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
>> I just discovered I had lost the contents of a whole directory.
>>
>> I have a directory /home/backup/Work/Amradio that somehow became empty.
>> I last worked in Monday. Since then I have been working in other
>> directories under /home/backup/Work.
>>
>> I looked in the trash, and it is not there.
>> I have not done anything as a superuser or as sudo for more than a week.
>> Other than run update manager when it tells me I have updates.
>>
>> /home/backup is a mounted disk with an ext3 partition. I am using 8.04.
>> It is a 372 GB disk with 117 GB used.
>>
>> How do I find out what happened? What logs can I go to? Where could it
>> have gone? How do I track this down?
>>
>> Kip
>
> Linux systems don't usually keep logs of every file that is deleted. If
> it's possible the files were merely moved somewhere else, you might have
> some luck with the "find" or "locate" commands. If /home/backup is completely
> empty, maybe that disk isn't mounted.

sudo updatedb
.... wait .....
locate -filename- | grep filterword-ifyouneedit

That will find it unless it is gone or not mounted. If it is gone you
still might be able to undelete it, maybe.


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