** Description changed: In the past 2 weeks I have experienced at least 2 instances of new files either downloaded from the web or copied from an external drive to my Ubuntu 14.04 final beta system (x64 bit ubuntu desktop) disappearing from my system. The first instance was an .mpg file downloaded from the web. I had actually been watching that .mpg using VLC but stopped it and planned to continue the next morning. I shutdown the system and the next morning restarted it. I went to the directory that the Movie (.mpg) file was the night before ... now the directory was empty. Yesterday... I copied 15 Microsoft Word documents to my Ubuntu 14.04 system from a USB external drive. I edited each of those files with LibreWriter, saved the edit and printed the documents. Last night I again shutdown my system and this morning restarted it. I again used Nautilus to go to the directory where the .ODT and .DOCX files were the night before.... again... the directory was there but there were NO files. I am NOT deleting those files and I am not sure what is going on. After the first occurrence I thought I thought I'd must have deleted the .mpg movie... but after the 2nd occurrence ... and losing 30 new files (the original 15 Word docs and the 15 .ODT documents created from those Word Docs... I believe Ubuntu is losing these files. I searched my entire 2TB disk (sudo find / -name *.odt -print) and it does NOT find any of the .odt files) same for the Word files. I wanted to report this in case others are having this occur. If this is a Bug ... it would be a nasty one to get into the final release! I DO NOT believe any files existing on the disk prior ot the recent upgrade to the final Beta are or have been affected ... I think only "new" files created after the Final Beta upgrade. My file system is a 2TB HD ext4. I've checked the disk and the system reports NO disk errors. + + = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = + Resolution + = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = + + The above problem occurred because of use of Clonezilla to clone my hard + drive (/dev/sda) so I could select at boot time to boot the original or + a modified clone of the original. + + The problem occurs because in the cloning the UUID gets cloned also so + you end up with 2 disks with the same ID. + + At boot time it becomes an OS race (ie random choice) which HD gets recognized and which one doesn't and I found that they choice can actually + switch back & forth which confuses you even more + + execute the cmd: + + $ man uuidgen + + it will show you how to generate a unique/new UUID for your disks + + After using Clonezilla to clone your hard drive you may have it in an + external eSata drive bay at boot time and expect to be able to choose which + disk to boot from (the original -- or the cloned disk). + + But when you boot its random which one is recognized as say /dev/sda. + + After cloning an HD you need to create a new UUID for it and then edit + you /etc/fstab and change the new disk's UUID to that. + + to verify: + + $ more /etc/fstab + + and see if you have a duplicate UUID listed use uuidgen to generate a new random UUID and change one of the disks to that new random UUID to avoid + problems
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