Hi Aaron<div><br>here is the file-path</div><div><br></div><div>/home/.ecryptfs/ddddd/.private</div><div>ddddd = user_account</div><div>When you install Ubuntu, it gives you the option to encrypt your home directory. That is the place where your encrypted home directory is located.</div>
<div><br></div><div>running</div><div><br></div><div>du -sh /home/ddddd/</div><div>equal to</div><div>du -sh /home/.ecryptfs/ddddd/.Private/</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Pablo</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Jeremy Bicha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbicha@ubuntu.com">jbicha@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 10 February 2012 23:52, Aaron Ruscetta <<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I just had a Young Friend (one of the teens in the youth<br>
> group I organize) who is delving into PC building and<br>
> Linux call me in a panic.<br>
><br>
> Not sure exactly what he was trying to do or why yet,<br>
> but he says he issued a sudo rm -rf command on /private<br>
> and everything stopped working. Not sure exactly what<br>
> he's blown away, but it probably included his shadow<br>
> file. On my mac here, /private contains the actual etc<br>
> directory and /etc is just a soft link.<br>
><br>
> We're going to work on salvaging his system tomorrow.<br>
> Any suggestions for maybe recovering reconstructing<br>
> the deleted directory? (no new writes have taken place...)<br>
> or recommendations on easy process for reinstalling to<br>
> a new hard disk and transferring system and user files?<br>
><br>
> I think he was running Ubuntu 11.10. Can anybody<br>
> give me a listing of what Ubuntu puts in /private these<br>
> days?<br>
<br>
</div>There is no /private on Ubuntu.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Jeremy Bicha<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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