Re: [linuxiran] Lost home contents

[Farid Behnia]

--- Zoup <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2003 02:50, Farid Behnia
> wrote:
> > I am posting this on behalf of my friend
> > He was trying to add a new ext3 partition and
> mount
> > his home directory on that.
> > He created the partition using webmin and mounted
> it
> > as /home!
> > Now he says he has lost all his home contents
> while
> > the df command shows the same disk usage as
> before.
> >
> 
> em... i can explain it for you ! :) 
> new partition mount at /home (just say hda2) ,
> before this , hda1 was mounted 
> on /home/zoup , after you mount hda2 on /home , new
> partition "Shadow" the 
> drive , you no longer see old partition mounted
> there ! :)
> edit /etc/fstab :)
> 
> -- 
> It's a poor workman who blames his tools.
> 
>

Yes u were right!
It was a matter of shadowing.
I did some umount, backup, mv, and mount and fixed it.



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