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091119 Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> A student handed me a USB flash drive with a video file on it |
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> he wanted to offer to me to watch. It mounted automatically, |
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> I copied the file, then I took the disk out and gave it to him. |
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> I cannot say with 100% certainty that I unmounted it. |
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> The file was completely copied. |
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> Today he came back asking what happened to his disk, nothing there anymore. |
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> I checked. Gparted says this drive (4 GB I think) |
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> has 2 Terabytes of unallocated space. |
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^^^^^^^^^ surely not on a USB drive ?? |
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A few quick suggestions: (1) you told it 'mv', not 'cp' (I've done that); |
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(2) he did something with it after he got it back (people do); |
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(3) he brought back a different USB stick (people mix them up); |
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(3) why don't you simply reformat the drive as Vfat for him |
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& copy the video file back onto it ? did it contain other items too ? |
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-- Surely, nothing you can have done would have deleted a partition ! |
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