External Hard drive
Hi guys,
Thanks for your answers in advance. I just got a new WD Passport (250 GB) and I was transfered my data over (in Windows). Then later on I decided to transfer some mp3's over on to the external hard drive. When I did that for some reason it copied the files into the main directory and it seems as if all the data I had originally transfered over had disappeared. However in both windows and Linux it accounts for the space of the transfered files although it doesnt show the data . . . anybody have a clue what might be going on . . . I didnt by accident hide those files and click on the do not show hidden files button. Any clue what I should do . . . like I said this is brand new. Fofire |
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How did you copy the files? Did you maybe copy multiple files to a single file using the dos copy command?
what command did you use to copy the files to the disk? Look at the long listing and see if there is a large file present. Could you maybe have copied them to a subdirectory by mistake? You could use the "find" command to locate files above a certain size. find /media/externaldrive/ -type f -size +6M To the kernel, a directory is a text file. Its size increases with the number of files copied there, so you could try to locate a subdirectory with a large number of files based on the directories size: find /media/externaldrive/ -type d -size +30K The sizes I chose are just examples. I also made up the name of the mount point since you didn't indicate that info. |
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As for the file system type its fat 32. thanks for the help |
You yourself must be able to deliver the solution. Just check if the files are hidden :) Thats all I can say! Also, just make sure that you safely unmount the drive before removing it. If you remove it without unmounting it, the data may not be written at all!
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Look at the results of:
find /media/<mount-point>/ -type f -name "*.mp3" It sounds like the files that you can't find are all mp3's and you hadn't copied mp3's previously. |
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