I am baffled. I have been using linux since the 90s and Ubuntu forever. I am not a computer technical expert but have built several computers and gone through several HDD crashes but not one like this. I have been running 18.04 media server for 14 years. 18.04 LTS was the last time I upgraded it. It also has virtual box and my website on it.
My /etc/fstab file has the usual then:
UUID=84edaaff2c-c293-4a73-9436-93172f5563fd /mnt/84edaaff2c-c293-4a73-9436-93172f5563fd auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,xgvfs-show 0 0Until yesterday, this HDD accessed in filemanager by /mnt/84edaaff2c-c293-4a73-9436-93172f5563fd held 30 years of my favorite songs and bunches of old movies,books etc. It is a 2tb seagate.
Today, in my filemanager I see /mnt/84edaaff2c-c293-4a73-9436-93172f5563fd but it is empty. No files at all.
Blkid lists all the other UUIDs in my /etc/fstab but no sign of 84edaaff2c-c293-4a73-9436-93172f5563fd
fdisk -l lists my 500gb /home and my other hard drive 3.7TiB storage drive but no sign of the one I am looking for and gparted didn't find it either.
Yet there it sits in my filemanager under /mnt/84edaaff2c-c293-4a73-9436-93172f5563fd, properties 4.5GB and no files. This morning it was owned by root, which I changed to me and I can write and access file in /mnt/84edaaff2c-c293-4a73-9436-93172f5563fd.
Testdrive - no sign of it ... the /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are there but no sign of the missing 2TB drive? I tried the alternate superblock address - no joy.
I took the hard drive out and plugged it into my Ubuntu Desktop via a USB Sata adapter. There was no sign of it on the Ubuntu Desktop.
I put it back in the server with a new SATA cable and into a different plugin site on the mother board - same as above.
I do not understand how the UUID can show up in my filemanager, be empty and not show up anywhere else so I can try to recover all my lost files.
I would appreciate any thoughts on this one, I hope I am missing something really obvious, it would be nice to get my tunes back.
Thank you in advanceSteve