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[ILUG] kernel 2.4.18 quest

[ILUG] kernel 2.4.18 quest

James Cooper jac1 at student.cs.ucc.ie
Mon Apr 22 09:29:03 IST 2002


Did you upgrade the modutils package??
Could be that the you selected the /home filesystem driver
as a module and when the system booted up the old modutils
couldn't find the driver. Did you look at the boot logs?

James

> 
> I've just updated to kernel 2.4.18 from 2.2.19 and added the iptables
> patches. I rebooted and everything seemed to work ok. It wasn't until an
> hour or so later that I looked in /home, and found that everything was gone.
> 10 gig of stuff just wiped out and the correct partition was mounted as
> home. I rebooted this time choosing the 2.2.19 and /home was back. Does
> anyone know why it would disappear  like that?
> 
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