doomtop (doomtop@gmail.com) writes: > I am using Debian 3.1 and seem to have lost some files... > > I have directory A and in directory A there is directory B and > directory C. I moved directory B into directory C and then I moved > directory B back into directory A. Then I removed directory C. > > Now all the files in directory B are gone... when I do a "locate' for > the files it shows them all where I think they should be but when I > try to list the directorys within directory B it says they do not > exist... > One important thing, locate looks in a database, it's not actually going through the hard drive each time you run it. So it will tell you where everything used to be, until the next time updatedb is run. Well, since on my system updatedb points to slocate, I imagine some systems may not have the alias and you have to run slocate. I would think that by default, updatedb is run as a cron job each night, so you have to wait till the next day, and have to be sure your computer is left on overnight. Or else run updatedb right then and there, and after the hard drive churns enough, you'll be able to use locate to find things in their new locations. Michael

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>: > doomtop writes: > > I have directory A and in directory A there is directory B and directory > > C. I moved directory B into directory C and then I moved directory B back > > into directory A. Then I removed directory C. > > Tell us exactly what you typed and exactly how the machine responded. "history" command may help with that. > > Now all the files in directory B are gone... when I do a "locate' for the I suspect a filesystem is mounted on their directory, thus hiding them. umount it. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me.