On Sunday 01 July 2018 11:09:24 Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-01, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > This is also a strong recommendation to use a new drive whenever > > upgrading your distro of choice, you can always mount the old drive > > and copy your usefull things to the newer one. One of the reasons > > my email corpus is so big, some folders go back to 2002. > > Apparently she had two identical partitions running Wheezy, wiped one, > installed Stretch on it (while leaving 'home' untouched, which > contained her user templates, 66 of which have gone AWOL). > > This raises the question as to why the other Wheezy partition can't > provide the missing 66 templates, as well as where the latter might be > hiding on the new Stretch install, which question is exactly the OP's > question--but unhappily I don't know the answer. > > >> > Hope this helps. > >> > > >> > Best regards > >> > > >> > Hans > >> > >> Thanks in advance
Neither do I Curt. Perhaps both wheezy installs shared the /home directory. Thats the best theory I can float. If not, the least she should have been doing is syncing the two /home's nightly. But we'll never know without the /etc/fstab from the partition she blew away. And its yet another argument in favor of unplugging that disk with its valuable data on it, and installing stretch on a fresh drive. That way you've always got a path backwards, loseing none of ones hard work. Debian may be calling stretch "stable" but its not yet up to my stds. When an uptime report says 6+ months, its getting close. Jessie has done quite close to that, running on a pi-3b. -- Cheers Curt, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
