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[Wade Smart]

Rashkae wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
> 
>> 20090219 1823 GMT-5
>>
>> I had posted here recently about a grub problem. After getting that done
>> -- like hour later - was the first day this happened. I started a scan 
>> of all three of my hard drives this morning before leaving on a trip. 
>> When I got home it had found all my files but on a hard drive that I 
>> think was the one that was messed up in grub.
>>
>> I moved all the files over to where they should be but, Im not sure why 
>> there were posted there in the first place.
>>
>> See, I have two drives: at some point in time when I reinstalled ubuntu 
>> or when I reinstalled the drives after working on my computer I switched 
>> the location of the drives. I guess that was enough to cause problems 
>> over time.
>>
>> Now though the drives are in the correct order physically again, my 
>> files apparently went to the other location.
>>
>> I dont understand all of this but for the next few days what Im going to 
>> do is save it in my chosen location and then check it immediately.
>>
>> Wade
>>
> 
> Wade, did you at any time copy one hard drive to the other.  There are
> several instructions on the net people use when upgrading hard drives
> that have them using dd or some other drive cloning tool when they are
> upgrading or changing drives with Linux.  Unfortunately, those
> instructions are often a little out of date with Ubuntu and don't take
> into account Ubuntu's reliance on each filesystem having a unique UUID.
>   Getting duplicate UUID's can cause all kinds of weirdness.
> 

20090219 1843 GMT-5

No. Though I have backed up data by copying it over at one time.
I had read about those hd copy software but - I just wonder about them 
sometimes :D

Wade

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