I've been copying files from my Windows PC to my Debian 11 server using WinSCP. The data drive on the server is a 16TB Western Digital Elements USB HDD, which is encrypted with Veracrypt.
I'd created a folder on that drive (mounted as /media/16TB) with several subfolders and thousands of files in them, and I needed to move a 16GB file from the root of the drive to that folder, but when I did that with WinSCP it took ages and then started throwing up errors about other files and quotas, even though I haven't even got the quota tools installed, and when I looked at the folder after that all the files were gone, apart from the one that I was trying to move, and even that hadn't been created properly.
I ran testdisk which found all the missing folders and I copied them to another USB SSD, but the copies have no files in, so I'm trying photorec now, but I need to know what went wrong so that I can make sure it doesn't happen again, because moving a file to a folder shouldn't result in all the existing files in that folder being deleted.
I'd created a folder on that drive (mounted as /media/16TB) with several subfolders and thousands of files in them, and I needed to move a 16GB file from the root of the drive to that folder, but when I did that with WinSCP it took ages and then started throwing up errors about other files and quotas, even though I haven't even got the quota tools installed, and when I looked at the folder after that all the files were gone, apart from the one that I was trying to move, and even that hadn't been created properly.
I ran testdisk which found all the missing folders and I copied them to another USB SSD, but the copies have no files in, so I'm trying photorec now, but I need to know what went wrong so that I can make sure it doesn't happen again, because moving a file to a folder shouldn't result in all the existing files in that folder being deleted.
Statistics: Posted by dmdb71 — 2023-12-22 01:14 — Replies 3 — Views 97
