In the course of doing my upgrade to 6.3, I swapped hard drives, and did a fresh install. My goal was to do a complete fresh install, and then copy individual files and directories from my old hard drive to the new one. My problem is that almost everything has disappeared off my old hard drive. I connected the old drive as a slave to hda, mounted the old root filesystem (now /dev/hdb3) on /mnt... and behold! Hardly anything is there. There is an /mnt/etc which has only two files in it, fstab and a fragmented rc.config. Also there is a directory /mnt/tmp, just a few files, /mnt/lost+found, /mnt/var, and empty directories /mnt/boot and /mnt/proc. The directories I need of the old drive are /home /usr and /root. Originally they were on the same partition as the rest. When I run df /dev/hdb3, it shows me that 84% of the drive is full, but I can't find any of it. I've tried running e2fsck on it, repairing with debugfs, and mounting -osb -ocheck=strict -oerrors=continue etc.... Everything I know to find missing files. What else can I do? It's driving me nuts! About 2 Gigs of files are gone! And the back-up drive is the one I erased for the new install! HELP! thanks in advance. stephen -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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