I was trying to login my Ubuntu 14.04, but after entering password, I wasn't able to see any icons or dash. I had faced this issue before and I knew the solution as well.
The issue was that my Ubuntu partition was almost full.
I planned to move the huge downloaded files to my Windows partition.
I got into the terminal Alt+Shift+F1 and mounted my Windows drive at /mnt
.
Then I moved files using mv
to my mounted drive.
The files were moved successfully (I confirmed that with ls
).
I unmounted the drive and rebooted my system and what I found?
The files were vanished.
Just like that. What might be the reason? I also tried recovering the files, but no success so far!
EDIT :
I was successful to recover some of the files (not all). The files appeared in the explorer as soon as I ran chkdsk
on the affected drive.
Some files were corrupt (The clusters might have got overwritten).
sudo ls /mnt
where ur ntfs partition is mounted at /mnt