Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-06-17 Thread brian mullan
Isidoros I think your problem was the same mistake I made cloning a disk. When you reinstall the new disk you need to create a new UUID for it and then edit /etc/fstab and change the new disks UUID to that. check: $ more /etc/fstab and see if you have a duplicate UUID listed The problem occur

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-01-28 Thread brian mullan
Roman thanks... yes I'd realized that is what had happened quite a while sgo & gixed it... forgot to update the bug report though. Anyone using clonezilla to dup their primary drive as a backup measure needs to be aware of this On Jan 28, 2016 6:35 PM, "rchyla" wrote: > run 'blkid' and check if

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-21 Thread brian mullan
I "may" have found a source for my problem... ubuntu 14.04 has had several bugs with grub installation. My system has 3 - 2TB drives ... all bought at the same time and all the SAME Model, SAME Vendor, SAME size and I originally had formatted all with EXT4. I'll call them Drives A, B, C in this d

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-20 Thread brian mullan
This problem of disappearing files is still occurring. Sometimes they reappear after some number of reboots and sometimes not. I had been running the Ubuntu 14.04 final beta but last week upgraded everything to the released packages. Everything has seemed fine until today. For the past 3 days

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-14 Thread brian mullan
Ok.. today I had VirtualBox disappear from my system. Booted up and 3 of the Virtualbox files were missing: virtualbox virtualbox-qt virtualbox-dkms I am absolutely certain I did not delete those myself. Other components of virtualbox still showed as installed (guest additions etc). Brian

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-10 Thread brian mullan
Ok... this is getting weird. I just sent that last email. The trying to recreate... I copied 1 directory of 30 files from a USB3 drive to my 14.04 HD to my ~/Desktop directory. Confirmed both the directory I copied and the files in it were there. Checked the ~/Desktop/family directory where I h

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-10 Thread brian mullan
The .mpg movie was just downloaded to my ~/Downloads directory The 15 Word .docx files were copied from a USB drive I use to transfer from my business Win7 laptop via a USB3 cable to my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. For those files I created a new directory in my ~/Desktop and copied the files there.