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romalong
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 Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: files disappeared![solved] |
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during gentoo istall i downloaded some file from the net to the /root folder and then i restarted machine.
and now i can't see my files! what's the hell is this?
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nixnut
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When the cd boots it creates a ramdisk and stuffs a lot of files in there. That ramdisk then becomes the root filesystem. So, if you reboot everything in that was on the ramdisk disappears, since a reboot clears the ram.
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Hi.
It's most likely that you download the files to the /root dir before doing the chroot. This means that you saved the files to RAM. When you restarted, the files were gone.
For anyone listening, the entire filesystem on the live-cd above /mnt/gentoo lives in RAM. Anything you copy there will be gone when you restart the machine. If you want to save files for later, put them under /mnt/gentoo, after you mount a disk partition there.
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romalong
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| nixnut wrote: | | When the cd boats it creates a ramdisk and stuffs a lot of files in there. That ramdisk then becomes the root filesystem. So, if you reboot everything in that was on the ramdisk disappears, since a reboot clears the ram. |
now i'm going to shoot myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Dakkar9999
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Does that apply even up to the step when we configure GRUB and restart? Because I have crashed on the GRUB install and now it seems I can't retrive any info...
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F-0_ICE
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it shouldn't. by the time you chroot in all your boot & root partitions would be mounted so you wouldn't be coping to a ramdisk anymore. if your having problems with grub its likely that you forgot to
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or when opening the grub.conf file:
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you may have mistyped something and created a file other than the above.
i know it has happend to me a couple o times 
also i never reboot until my gentoo install is complete just to make sure no problems come up.
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rovingtarget
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| romalong wrote: | | nixnut wrote: | | When the cd boats it creates a ramdisk and stuffs a lot of files in there. That ramdisk then becomes the root filesystem. So, if you reboot everything in that was on the ramdisk disappears, since a reboot clears the ram. |
now i'm going to shoot myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
you should have chrooted to your new gentoo install before downloading stuff |
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