[ale] Strange happenings

[David Tomaschik]

Are the symlinks on the same filesystem as /etc, etc.?

Makes me wonder if (somehow) the changes never got synced, or you were
using LVM snapshots or something.

David

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think I have a question, but I thought I'd share a very strange
> experience.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 11.04.  I just finished rebuilding my box (moved to SSD)
> and migrating my data.  Everything was working fine yesterday, including
> some NFS mounts.  I logged in today and the mounts were gone.  I mean
> totally gone.  The entries in /etc/fstab were gone.  The directories were
> gone.  Nfs-common was uninstalled
>
> The only thing that remained were some dead symbolic links pointing to the
> directories where they were to be mounted.  Otherwise I would start to
> question whether I had actually set everything up.
>
> Weirdness.
>
> Anyone else every have this happen?  I'm starting to wonder if my 8 year old
> has learned the magic of apt-get...
>
> Josh Kite
>
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