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Asked: 2009-11-18 21:57:25 +0800 CST

Lost data in Tar

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I had a tar file which was of size 3.5gb which held all my programming code.
I was working with git trying to learn the repositories, so I created this file as a backup, so I could work my code directory and if anything were to go wrong I could just delete and extract it.

I did this a few times and it worked great, then I restarted and remounted my drive and the tar file was not 10kb instead of 3,5gb and all its contents were gone.

What could have happened?

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  1. Best Answer

    What filesystem do you use? It can be a FS failure. Try fsck on that partition.

    And learn how to press the "accept answer" button, or you'll never get any responces.

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