Killed /home installing Fedora 7 with Ubuntu

[Dotan Cohen]

On 30/07/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 03:58 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions. You are not going to believe this... The
> > disk was simply not mounted...
>
> If you're likely to do that again (have something not mounted that
> usually is), you might try this trick:
>
> Unmount it.
> Create a file in its mountpoint, e.g. touch /home/not-mounted
>
> Next time you try to access it when it's not mounted, you see that file,
> and you're reminded about why, straight away.

Very cool, thanks! I will do just that! Although, the lack of
lost+found should have been a tip off, now that I think about it...

Dotan Cohen

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