091119 Alan E. Davis wrote: > 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 and gave it to him. > I cannot say with 100% certainty that I unmounted it. > The file was completely copied. > Today he came back asking what happened to his disk, nothing there anymore. > I checked. Gparted says this drive (4 GB I think) > has 2 Terabytes of unallocated space. ^^^^^^^^^ surely not on a USB drive ??
A few quick suggestions: (1) you told it 'mv', not 'cp' (I've done that); (2) he did something with it after he got it back (people do); (3) he brought back a different USB stick (people mix them up); (3) why don't you simply reformat the drive as Vfat for him & copy the video file back onto it ? did it contain other items too ? -- Surely, nothing you can have done would have deleted a partition ! -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca