Re: Linux Upgrade Puzzler

"Wesley J. Landaker" <[email protected]>
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On Friday 29 December 2006 08:24, Lee Einer wrote:
> A couple of months ago, I upgraded my laptop from Mepis 3.4.3 to Mepis
> 6.0. Despite the fact that I chose the option to preserve the home
> partition, when I signed on and looked, everything in my home directory
> had been wiped.
>
> A few days ago, I was playing with a live distro on my laptop, and saw
> that when I mounted my home partition from a CD with Zenlive, everything
> which appeared to have been wiped was there.  It is also there when I
> mount the home directory with a Mepis 3.4.3 CD.
>
> Haven't tried mounting it with the Mepis 6.0 cd.
>
> What is going on here and is there an easy way to restore my files?

What is the output of the following command?

  cat /proc/partitions /proc/mounts

From that output, it should be fairly easy to see what's going on.

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