Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 05:44 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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I used the KDE file manager to copy the contents of a disk to another. However, while the directory structure is intact, I can't find any files. According to du, the files are on the drive, somewhere, but I can't seem to find them. Any ideas? Both source and destination drives are Reiser. The source system is SUSE 10 and destination 10.1. I have tried as root, both in file manager and command prompt.

Try with "mc". If you can detect it's presence by size, mc can calculate the size of directories, and you can add sizes of dirs and files to see if it adds up. Krusader has some of its functionality, but not this one (not in 9.3, at least, or I haven't seen it).

MC doesn't show me much that I didn't already know. The directories are empty and all the space is used by "." in the root directory.

Don't forget looking at the trash.

Nothing there. Nothing in lost+found either.

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 20:09 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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Try with "mc". If you can detect it's presence by size, mc can calculate the size of directories, and you can add sizes of dirs and files to see if it adds up. Krusader has some of its functionality, but not this one (not in 9.3, at least, or I haven't seen it). MC doesn't show me much that I didn't already know. The directories are empty and all the space is used by "." in the root directory.

You mean that /root/. is big?

Yes.

(my idea was to use the "F9/Command/Show directory sIzes" to calculate space used by directories, and therefore try to find out where that space was being used)

It still doesn't tell me much.

An idea. If a file in use (open) is deleted, it appears deleted, but the space in disk is not freed. The kernel knows where the file was and the application that had it open can still read it, provided it doesn't close the file.

Files weren't deleted. They just weren't copied to the new disk properly.

The program lsof would show the used inodes. I think you would see something like "path inode=", but I might be confused. Even if I'm right, I don't know how to make use of that.

- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* James Knott [05-16-06 21:20]:

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 20:09 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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MC doesn't show me much that I didn't already know. The directories are empty and all the space is used by "." in the root directory. You mean that /root/. is big? Yes.

Wouldn't this indicate a corrupt file system?????

Perhaps, I don't know enough about it. All I know is I can see all the directories, but no contents.

Rikard Johnels wrote:

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 03:43, James Knott wrote:

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* James Knott [05-16-06 21:20]:

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 20:09 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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MC doesn't show me much that I didn't already know. The directories are empty and all the space is used by "." in the root directory. You mean that /root/. is big? Yes. Wouldn't this indicate a corrupt file system????? Perhaps, I don't know enough about it. All I know is I can see all the

Patrick Shanahan wrote: directories, but no contents.

Can you tell us exactly what and how you did it, and if there were any messages or other indications during the copy?

It was a copy and not a move operation?

Have you checked the logs for errors? (/var/log/messages and its friends..)

In File Mananger super user mode, I copied several top level folders to another drive. Ths operation took several minutes, with a progress indicator and no error messages. Any logs would be long gone, as the original disk has been reformatted as part of installing SUSE 10.1