Dirs magically emptying and filling

tfoss · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 8

Ok, this has me baffled.

I have an ext3 drive on my local machine that is samba accessible for my lab. Twice now there have occurences where a directory that has file and subdirs in it becomes empty. It is empty on remote systems as well as on the local system. After a while (hours to overnight) it magically re-populates with the contents it had before. It is not on a net backup plan, there are no cron jobs that should touch the drive. It doesnt seem to be bad sectors as the data comes back perfectly useable.

I have no idea what this could be, or where to look. Any ideas?

-Ted

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject:

Are those seperate mountpoints? If you mount an empty partition on top of the current (populated) directorie it will look like it's empty. After unmounting the populated directory is showed again.

tfoss · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 8

Is a single mountpoint (/people) where a dir under it is emptied (/people/ted) while another is fine (/people/kathy). I have been puzzling over this for a while and still have no idea...

-Ted