Originally Posted by dmed

Hi Community,
My /home/user/MyDocs is no more! What could have happened?
I had a ton of data in there.
I haven't deleted anything, I haven't changed any mount points,
I recently had a look at my lock code and soon changed it, thats all
the changes I've done , apart from taking a few more pictures.
I first noticed the absurdity when I couldn't scroll up my pics more
than 1 page.
Whatever data / directories I had is also missing in /home/user/MyDocs
It resembles what it looked like when I first bought the phone:-
Let me show you the listing:-
Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs# cd /home/user/MyDocs/
Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs# ls -l
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 May 2 14:24 DCIM
Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs# ls -la
drwxrwxrwx 7 user root 16384 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 64 user users 4096 Mar 9 12:22 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 Apr 29 16:04 .documents
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 Apr 29 16:04 .images
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 Apr 29 16:04 .sounds
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 Apr 29 16:04 .videos
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 16384 May 2 14:24 DCIM
Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs# ls -l DCIM/
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 2111310 May 1 18:17 20110501_001.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 2110910 May 1 18:19 20110501_002.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 2050658 May 1 18:20 20110501_003.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 1512658 May 1 20:27 20110501_004.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 1034694 May 1 20:32 20110501_005.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 958746 May 1 20:38 20110501_006.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 881954 May 1 20:38 20110501_008.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 842630 May 1 20:42 20110501_009.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 859714 May 1 20:42 20110501_010.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 869730 May 1 20:43 20110501_014.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 872338 May 1 20:43 20110501_015.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 1107958 May 1 21:20 20110501_016.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 1795518 May 1 23:16 20110501_017.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 996114 May 2 06:29 20110502_001.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 823174 May 2 12:26 20110502_002.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 2062434 May 2 14:06 20110502_003.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 805594 May 2 14:24 20110502_004.jpg
Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 233344 151644 77420 66% /
ubi0:rootfs 233344 151644 77420 66% /
tmpfs 1024 68 956 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256 76 180 30% /var/run
none 10240 72 10168 1% /dev
tmpfs 65536 4 65532 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2064208 361804 1597548 18% /home
/home/opt 2064208 361804 1597548 18% /opt
/dev/mmcblk0p1 28301808 21424 28280384 0% /home/user/MyDocs

PS I've noticed other wierdities before with the N900 - not worth
mentioning but this above is definitely worth finding out what
could have happened.?

Repeat, I have not rm'ed or deleted any thing using command line
or GUI. This is just too strange. Please anyone, do you have any
pointers please?
thanks very much,
d

PS: /home/user/MyDocs is a vfat FS
I was thinking of using testdisk or something like that to resolve
the partition but I've not tried anything yet as I'd rather know
whats going on first. Thanks...

Originally Posted by dmed

Hi sat2050
I'll try out your suggestion.
Also trying out if I can reply to myself...cause you said you didn't
have perms.
d

Originally Posted by dmed

Hi sat2050
I connected it via mass storage drive to a windows XP
virtual host that I run in linux.
It still shows me the few new files only.

mount -a keeps mount /home/opt time and again.
I have this output so you can understand
Nokia-N900-51-1:/# mount -a
mount: mounting rootfs on / failed: Invalid argument
Nokia-N900-51-1:/# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 233344 151556 77508 66% /
ubi0:rootfs 233344 151556 77508 66% /
tmpfs 1024 68 956 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256 76 180 30% /var/run
none 10240 72 10168 1% /dev
tmpfs 65536 4 65532 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2064208 361820 1597532 18% /home
/home/opt 2064208 361820 1597532 18% /opt
/home/opt 2064208 361820 1597532 18% /opt
/dev/mmcblk0p1 28301808 21424 28280384 0% /home/user/MyDocs
/home/opt 2064208 361820 1597532 18% /opt
/home/opt 2064208 361820 1597532 18% /opt
/home/opt 2064208 361820 1597532 18% /opt
Nokia-N900-51-1:/# mount -a
mount: mounting rootfs on / failed: Invalid argument
Nokia-N900-51-1:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.9M 148.0M 75.7M 66% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.9M 148.0M 75.7M 66% /
tmpfs 1.0M 68.0k 956.0k 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 76.0k 180.0k 30% /var/run
none 10.0M 72.0k 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0k 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2.0G 353.3M 1.5G 18% /home
/home/opt 2.0G 353.3M 1.5G 18% /opt
/home/opt 2.0G 353.3M 1.5G 18% /opt
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 20.9M 27.0G 0% /home/user/MyDocs
/home/opt 2.0G 353.3M 1.5G 18% /opt
/home/opt 2.0G 353.3M 1.5G 18% /opt
/home/opt 2.0G 353.3M 1.5G 18% /opt
/home/opt 2.0G 353.3M 1.5G 18% /opt
Nokia-N900-51-1:/#

I tried umounting /home/user/MyDocs and remounting it
even tried a reboot, and on remounting it using
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 it still shows the few new files
pics i created since may 1st only. It looks like somehow
the data has all been reset since May 1.
I tried also a fsck.vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 which didn't
change anything....