On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Eric Clover wrote:
> Gregory Hosler wrote:
> >
> > On 29-Aug-00 eric clover wrote:
> > > is there any known exploits that can just remove a /home dir within a few
> > > seconds
> > > without the hd's thrashing, like just removing any trace of the /home dir
> > > ever even being there?
> > >
> > > for some reason(and always on a Tuesday at around 5:30-6:00, but not every
> > > Tuesday)
> > > our /home dir with around 4000 user dirs just goes bye-bye, no trace,
> > > nothing.
> > >
> > > this happened to our old server. we thought it was a hardware problem, built
> > > a new machine, and now after 2 months of flawless operation, BAM!!! no more
> > > /home
> > > same thing we had before.
> >
> > I'm assuming that /home is on it's own partition (you might clarify this).
> >
> > when you say "no more /home", could youy explain what you mean by that.
> >
> > The partition is still on the disk, correct ?
> >
> > Is /home merely umounted, and you need only to mount it back ? or
> > has the /home partition been wiped clean (and is it still mounted when this
> > happens), etc.
> >
> > rgds,
> >
> > -Greg
>
>
> home is mounted along with / there are 2 partitions / & /boot on a 9g
> RAID1
> all the other dirs are there in / the only thing gone is /home, and by
> that, i mean there is not even a /home dir anymore.
>
> just a thought, if someone were to say, chmod 000 /home would that make
> it look like it was just gone and not show up in a ls -al?
>
Check out the contents of the /etc/fstab file and also the output of the
"mount -a" command. There is a chance that you accidentally mounted
something on top of the /home directory, therefore making it
disappear. Other than that, you can also use "locate [homedir]" where
homedir is perhaps the username of one of the users in your box just in
case the contents of /home have been moved somewhere else.
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