From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAx4r-0001TK-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:48:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DDF2E08D6; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f202.google.com (mail-iw0-f202.google.com [209.85.223.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101F6E08D6 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn40 with SMTP id 40so1291437iwn.32 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:47:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=Xtpzg4YNTrsUYdEwSfZdhm3ARKCUFzNJS8eA+mLuT90=; b=gkr68bkFqMX7+lTseDR5lPOCPlCXuXfmTloHqrFgKy1xmlPqzlowukmhcPIJ4gnJIK UAUra/evSY2vTrkEZgg8h09KAivNvCuqGS3zqTmQBlHkNt33MSZBxj4Jfsw/b6qx9c7H ZUOurmcG2ToWndk+9/dZwDwihos96t2PrtwTs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=FyRwjgheNxVTZOd5S8rDpIjRx3Cj5tv3mXIinC6fUtsMAcHawjCmAKLM2P5SJ4s4nc Ya5d73EqQZU2QartExiEP9PMD6jDKqH1sf0CoCwtUp+SEkzabiTiZSSdSsKgFHQx/gXb VjRakFlkUWgvYBCxwHdFk6A15F68D1sTqqSVQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.125.100 with SMTP id x36mr258591ibr.52.1258598876798; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:47:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Alan E. Davis" Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:46:36 +0000 Message-ID: <7bef1f890911181846x3a4ba55cxc473229eef3c5b65@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e646432cf75eab0478b062da X-Archives-Salt: a5afec11-844f-498f-a858-14643ec50f61 X-Archives-Hash: 81e45321965daf2ba848040ac610e8fa --0016e646432cf75eab0478b062da Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I can't think of a specific place to look for this, so will try the eclectics at gentoo-user. 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 of the drive and gave it to him. I cannot say with 100% certainty that I unmounted it. The file was completely copied. I am pretty careful, so I think I unmounted it. Today he came back to me, asking what happened to his disk. He said nothing it there anymore. I checked. Gparted says this drive (4 GB I think) has 2 Terabytes of unallocated space. None of the Windoze gurus (so to speak) around here know what to do. Any ideas? I'm afraid the little bit of progress I've made over the past 13 years in advocating GNU/Linux and Free Softwrae, will be lost if this problem isn't solved. Thanks, Alan --0016e646432cf75eab0478b062da Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I can't think of a specific place to look for this, so will try the ecl= ectics at gentoo-user.

A student handed me a USB flash drive with a = video file on it he wanted to offer to me to watch.=A0 It mounted automatic= ally, I copied the file, then I took the disk out of the drive and gave it = to him.=A0 I cannot say with 100% certainty that I unmounted it.=A0 The fil= e was completely copied.=A0 I am pretty careful, so I think I unmounted it.=

Today he came back to me, asking what happened to his disk.=A0 He said = nothing it there anymore.=A0 I checked.=A0 Gparted says this drive (4 GB I = think) has 2 Terabytes of unallocated space.=A0 None of the Windoze gurus (= so to speak) around here know what to do.

Any ideas?=A0=A0 I'm afraid the little bit of progress I've mad= e over the past 13 years in advocating GNU/Linux and Free Softwrae, will be= lost if this problem isn't solved.=A0=A0

Thanks,

Alan <= br>



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