Dir gone - how to get it back?

[Ric Moore]

On 05/15/2013 01:14 AM, rikona wrote:
> I'm setting up a new 12.04 box. Just installed a few printers, which
> seemed to go OK - BUT, after that, one of my home dirs is GONE! Was a
> BIG one with about 1/3 of the stuff in home, and very important. Any
> idea of why just that dir [apparently] disappeared? Better still, any
> way to recover it? I can't see it via another admin account, or with
> the CLI. New box, a few days of intensive work, and didn't do a backup
> yet. :-(
>
> What's the best thing to do [not involving a large soothing glass of
> Scotch :-) ]?

Did you by any chance have it on it's own partition? (could but hope) so 
you need to only remount it? Ric



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