ChrisM Posted January 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I've filed a report with Bugzilla - so I guess it's just sit and wait time for this to be hopefully sorted out. Right now though, I'm not even bothered about the loss of apps, or even the shell line in a console not being right - all these can be sorted out later, even if it means reinstalling. However, would it be possible in some way to tell if my work documents have been hidden/moved into cyberlimbo somewhere? Its as if everything has gone without trace. so far I've tried an urpmi auto update, changed msec levels, looked at hidden folders and tried to find my folders with knoppix (but don't really know how to use it for recovery mode). Man this is so frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CLiF1274 Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Just a few questions for ya. 1. Is there anything in your home directory that should be there? 2. Have you checked your hard drive partitions? 3. Did you have a seperate /home partition? I'm just kinda wondering if your /etc/fstab might have gotten messed up some how and didn't mount your home partition. CLiF1274 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 (edited) Just a few questions for ya. 1. Is there anything in your home directory that should be there? 2. Have you checked your hard drive partitions? 3. Did you have a seperate /home partition? I'm just kinda wondering if your /etc/fstab might have gotten messed up some how and didn't mount your home partition. CLiF1274 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The thing about all of this is, its almost as if I'd popped in a CD and done a clean install/upgrade - when all I did do, was go to MCC and did update medias. In answer to your questions though: 1) Well, all I have now in my home directory is a tmp folder (lost all previous contents though) and a link to the desktop - everything else - has all gone. As have links etc on desktop/toolbar other than the breadcrumb as mentioned in an earlier post. Also, all my shortcuts and folder on Konqueror browser, email settings, address book, notes etc etc in Kontact - have all just gone. Basically, any of the folders or contents that I created have all vanished. A number of apps/settings have vanished - though the taskbar shows that staroffice did at least reside there. Also, shell line in console has been amended. 2) & 3) Not sure what you mean by checking my HDD partitions. The partitions on my HDD are as Mandrake installed originally upon installation. From the MCC this is how the hard drive is set : hda: Mount Point: / Device: hda1 Type: Journalised FS: ext3 Size: 5.5BGB Formatted Mounted Mount Point: swap Device: hda5 Type: Linux swap Size: 494MB Formatted Mounted Mount Point: /home Device: hda6 Type: Journalised FS: ext3 Size: 3.4GB Formatted Mounted I checked out my fstab and noticed I now have 2 fstabs (fstab and fstab~) - I may have before, never noticed though. Right click/properties suggests the fstab~ is a backup but lines 4 and 5 are different read outs are below. fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,exec,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 fstab~ /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Is there anything sinister here? I have a terrible gut feeling my system is borked. Edited January 16, 2005 by ChrisM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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