Dir gone - how to get it back?

[rikona]

Hello Ric,

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 2:38:13 AM, Ric wrote:

> On 05/15/2013 01:14 AM, rikona wrote:
>> I'm setting up a new 12.04 box. Just installed a few printers, which
>> seemed to go OK - BUT, after that, one of my home dirs is GONE! Was a
>> BIG one with about 1/3 of the stuff in home, and very important. Any
>> idea of why just that dir [apparently] disappeared? Better still, any
>> way to recover it? I can't see it via another admin account, or with
>> the CLI. New box, a few days of intensive work, and didn't do a backup
>> yet. :-(
>>
>> What's the best thing to do [not involving a large soothing glass of
>> Scotch :-) ]?

> Did you by any chance have it on it's own partition? (could but hope) so
> you need to only remount it? Ric

I did not mean the entire home was gone - only one of perhaps 40 dirs
under home. And no, home is not in its own partition. But you bring up
a good reason to have home separate. In cases like this it would be
nice...

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 rikona