From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 08:58:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C520616A417 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:58:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivan@kytex.bg) Received: from k2smtpout05-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (k2smtpout05-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.189.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EA1B13C468 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:58:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivan@kytex.bg) Received: (qmail 26831 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2007 08:29:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vh.kytex.net) (208.109.92.156) by k2smtpout05-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.189.57) with ESMTP; 17 Oct 2007 08:29:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 7849 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2007 11:29:17 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO pulsar.kytex.local) (213.91.244.52) by ip-208-109-92-149.ip.secureserver.net with SMTP; 17 Oct 2007 11:29:17 +0300 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:28:56 +0300 From: Ivan Georgiev To: "Monah Baki" Message-Id: <20071017112856.cffb1ac6.ivan@kytex.bg> In-Reply-To: <42386.192.60.228.173.1192476641.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> References: <27205.192.60.228.173.1192463028.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> <20071015191837.GA42465@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <42386.192.60.228.173.1192476641.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> Organization: Ivan Georgiev X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntfs-3g problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:58:55 -0000 On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:30:41 -0400 (EDT) "Monah Baki" wrote: > I copied 7 files totaling 280GB. I then rebooted the freebsd box (without > unmounting the ntfs partition) and then when I tried to mount the > partition "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/windows"), all files where > missing. I could not even see them on the windows server. Yet df -h shows > almost 300GB of diskspace used > > > Thank you The problem occured because you did not umount the partition. As far as recovering goes, i have no idea if it is possible to recover the files from the ntfs partition since only the part that you see was written to it and nothing else. Ivan