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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:28:56 +0300
From:      Ivan Georgiev <ivan@kytex.bg>
To:        "Monah Baki" <mbaki@whywire.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntfs-3g problem
Message-ID:  <20071017112856.cffb1ac6.ivan@kytex.bg>
In-Reply-To: <42386.192.60.228.173.1192476641.squirrel@www.geekisp.com>
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:30:41 -0400 (EDT)
"Monah Baki" <mbaki@whywire.net> 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



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