Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

091119 Alan E. Davis wrote:
> A student handed me a USB flash drive with a video file on it
> he wanted to offer to me to watch.  It mounted automatically,
> I copied the file, then I took the disk out and gave it to him.
> I cannot say with 100% certainty that I unmounted it.
> The file was completely copied.
> Today he came back asking what happened to his disk, nothing there anymore.
> I checked.  Gparted says this drive (4 GB I think)
> has  2 Terabytes of unallocated space.
         ^^^^^^^^^ surely not on a USB drive ??

A few quick suggestions: (1) you told it 'mv', not 'cp' (I've done that);
(2) he did something with it after he got it back (people do);
(3) he brought back a different USB stick (people mix them up);
(3) why don't you simply reformat the drive as Vfat for him
& copy the video file back onto it ?  did it contain other items too ?
-- Surely, nothing you can have done would have deleted a partition !

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