MichaelBaum
November 7th, 2009, 04:54 PM
I just encountered this strange pathology and wondered if anyone else had seen it and knew what to do. I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic on a Dell Notebook computer. My custom is to maintain a ~100 GB partition at the end of the hard drive for data that I'd rather not lose when I install a new system. Which I do because I have no faith in using "upgrade". So sue me.
Anyway, this partition is formatted as ext3, and I usually mount it as something in the local hierarchy, like /usr/local/archives. Normally this works. This time, I followed usual procedure, ran the Karmic install CD, chose manual partitioning, told it to _not_ format the reserve partition but rather mount it, labelled as "archive", as an ext3 partition at /usr/local/archives.
Here's where it gets odd. None of the existing files on that partition are visible or reachable now. The directory shows no files whatsoever, hidden or otherwise -- well, there's an empty .Trash folder and a .directory file, but otherwise nothing. Regardless of being self or root. The directory free space _size_ is about what the free space would be not counting the previously existing, now invisible files. If I use the disk utility, on the other hand, it shows the correct ~100GB size. Oh, yes, and the label I asked for is not present, whatever _that_ means.
df reports about 189MByte in files on the partition. But not there. Forcing fsck on the partition causes it to create a previously missing lost-found folder (empty), but nothing else.
Any of this mean anything to anyone?
Kthnxbai,
maab
Anyway, this partition is formatted as ext3, and I usually mount it as something in the local hierarchy, like /usr/local/archives. Normally this works. This time, I followed usual procedure, ran the Karmic install CD, chose manual partitioning, told it to _not_ format the reserve partition but rather mount it, labelled as "archive", as an ext3 partition at /usr/local/archives.
Here's where it gets odd. None of the existing files on that partition are visible or reachable now. The directory shows no files whatsoever, hidden or otherwise -- well, there's an empty .Trash folder and a .directory file, but otherwise nothing. Regardless of being self or root. The directory free space _size_ is about what the free space would be not counting the previously existing, now invisible files. If I use the disk utility, on the other hand, it shows the correct ~100GB size. Oh, yes, and the label I asked for is not present, whatever _that_ means.
df reports about 189MByte in files on the partition. But not there. Forcing fsck on the partition causes it to create a previously missing lost-found folder (empty), but nothing else.
Any of this mean anything to anyone?
Kthnxbai,
maab