Re: Help finding files

From: "s. keeling" <keeling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:53:12 +0200 (CEST)

John Hasler <john@xxxxxxxxxx>:

doomtop writes:

I have directory A and in directory A there is directory B and directory
C. I moved directory B into directory C and then I moved directory B back
into directory A. Then I removed directory C.

Tell us exactly what you typed and exactly how the machine responded.

"history" command may help with that.

Now all the files in directory B are gone... when I do a "locate' for the

I suspect a filesystem is mounted on their directory, thus hiding
them. umount it.

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