Actually, I did do a dd if of: same thing. Velly strange. Wish I would of saved something. I'm closing on a house soon and needed a file off my notebook quick last night. Rather get the house than have resolved my curiousity :-) Next time. v/r mike On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:21:44PM -0700, David A. Sinck wrote: > > > \_ SMTP quoth meg@leary.csoft.net on 8/9/2001 15:20 as having spake thusly: > \_ > \_ I tried the below moving and remounting.........same probs. > \_ > \_ I also tried some e2fstools, but I ended up hosing the partition > \_ in the process. > > Hum. Perhaps a dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/slice/with/lots/of/room/hda6 prior > to this next time; sorry I didn't think of it last night.... Curious > what happened too. What were the contents of the file '/home'? > > David > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss