Hi guys,

I downloaded some songs and stored it on my "D" drive which is mounted in my /home directory.... the "D" drive is like my extra hard drive which i use to store my songs.... However, this morning when i tried to look for the song files in that mounted directory, all i could see was a "lost+found" folder and all my song files were gone....

Do you guys know what could be the problem and is there anyway i can retrieve my files?

-Timberwolf

Get the obvious out of the way...
Did you download the songs in linux or windows? Did you make sure they were being saved in that directory? Have you tried doing a search for them?

You said that the drive your saving them to is a extra dirve that you have to mount right, well if you happened to forgot to mount it and whatever program you used to download the songs with would of created a directory and put the songs in there. Not sure what happens when you mount a drive into a directory that has information stored in it but it could of have erased what was in that directory upon mounting.

I downloaded the songs after i started using linux, using gtk-gnutella..... I mounted the hard drive and created the directory for my songs before i even started downloading the songs as well.... and for gtk-gnutella, i specified the directory in which my completed songs would go to.... so, what i do is i'd move all the songs in my completed directory into that directory mounted on my extra hard drive.... so.... was there anything wrong in my process?

It was just today that this thing happened, cuz for the past week, i've been accessing those files thru my mp3 player and sorting out those files..... and just today those files just disappeared and i don't know what happened.....

-timberwolf

Well, does that Extra "D" drive have an entry in /etc/fstab??
If so, did the permissions happen to change somehow??

It should be.... i don't know why but i can't seem to access /etc/fstab from the console even though i changed user to root.... the message still displays "permission denied" .... however, when i check the configuration settings using the GUI from the KDE control panel, it shows that my drive is mounted on the directory i specified.....

please help..... thanks for your aid...

-Timberwolf

Try logging out of kde or if you have to all the way out of X and log back in as root and then try to view /etc/fstab.
If it is mounted try unmounting it and then remount it through the command line.
Have you tried searching for mp3 files with like locate. (If you use locate make sure to do locate -u first.)

I tried logging even all the way out of X and relogging in as root. However, permission is still denied.... do you know what's the problem?
In any case, how can data just disappear by itself like that?

-Timberwolf