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I have not specifically run a file system check on the home
partition, but I assume that Ubuntu has done so when booting up when
it says it is checking the drives. It must do each partition after
so many mounts, right?<br>
<br>
sudo mount (edited to remove irrelevant partitions, i.e. some things
not related to system or home, i.e. we're only interested in sda):<br>
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<blockquote>davoura@avourastudio12:/media$ sudo mount<br>
[sudo] password for davoura: <br>
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)<br>
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)<br>
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)<br>
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)<br>
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)<br>
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)<br>
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)<br>
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)<br>
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)<br>
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)<br>
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)<br>
/dev/sda1 on /media/mint13 type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)<br>
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)<br>
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/davoura/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=davoura)<br>
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev)<br>
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sudo fdisk -l<br>
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<blockquote>davoura@avourastudio12:/media$ sudo fdisk -l<br>
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168
sectors<br>
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0x000773a6<br>
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1 * 2048 61442047 30720000 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda2 61442048 976773119 457665536 5 Extended<br>
/dev/sda5 61444096 122884095 30720000 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda6 122886144 184326143 30720000 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda7 184328192 333832191 74752000 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda8 333834240 491530239 78848000 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda9 491532288 516108287 12288000 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda10 516110336 540686335 12288000 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda11 540688384 968499199 213905408 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda12 968501248 976773119 4135936 82 Linux swap
/ Solaris<br>
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/home is mounted on /sda7<br>
it has 12.37 GiB free, and it's 71.29 GiB in size (according to
gparted)<br>
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(I have not included output for other drives)<br>
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I should also add that a lot of things in /home/davoura are symlinks
to stuff in another user folder, as I also have an older Ubuntu
installation which I no longer use (10.10 on sda6), and use some of
the settings from that for Ubuntu Studio 12.04 through symlinks, and
the same thing for my Linux Mint installation (on sda1). I have
never had this problem in Linux Mint nor the older Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
I have backups of various files, I had a backup of /home from a few
months ago, but have now made a new backup of the latest files.<br>
<br>
There is nothing in /home/lost+found (checked with sudo ls
lost+found)<br>
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<br>
David K<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/05/13 21:05, Alan Jenkins wrote:<br>
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<div>So all of /home is on a partition but just your home folder
is gone? Have you ran a file system check on that partition? Do
you have backups? Have you checked lost+found on that partition
for files?</div>
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<div>Also just so we have a better idea of the environment could
you please give us the output of these two commands?</div>
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<div>sudo mount</div>
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<div>sudo fdisk -l</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Alan Jenkins</div>
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On 31 May 2013, at 21:00, David King <<a
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Nothing is encrypted. I should point out that /home is a
separate partition to root, but on the same hard drive. Most
of my data is on other hard drives. <br>
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David<br>
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<pre>Hey David,
Do you have encrypted home folders enabled? If so it could just be
failing to mount your home using encfs for some reason.
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<pre>Sometimes my home folder is missing. When I boot up and get to the login screen, I enter my password to login and it does not load the desktop, but goes straight back to the login screen. And just now my home folder literally just disappeared. I can see other user folders in /home but not for my current user, although I am still logged in.
I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 XFCE and it is up to date, the last updates were applied this morning, although the problem has persisted for a while now. Although today is the first time I have lost my home partition while logged in.
This is a real nuisance. I can see home folders in the same partition for other users (from other distros I have installed on the same PC) but not my own.
Any ideas why it keeps getting hidden and how to prevent it getting hidden?
David K
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