HOME Directory files disappears randomly

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HOME Directory files disappears randomly

14 March 2024, 10:12:17

Hey
as title says my home directory disapppears randomly and I don't know how it happens
this is my user-dirs.dirs :

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
XDG_DIR_DIR="$HOME/"

and it removes all my file in home folder exept files that has dot at first and they are hidden
I don't know why is that problem it's really annoying
this is my fstab if it matters:

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/dev/sda2               /               xfs             rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota        0 1

# UUID=A6F1-EECE
/dev/sda1               /boot/efi       vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2

# UUID=9b30dc10-66ea-4489-b3ec-68ce19df6b85
/dev/sdb1               /home           xfs             rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota        0 2

/swap                   none            swap            defaults        0 0

tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs           defaults,nosuid,nodev,noatime           0 0

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Re: HOME Directory files disappears randomly

Reply #1 – 14 March 2024, 16:48:56

Sounds weird
What I will say first Is you'd help the description of your issue if you try and explain 'it' more in certain places

"and it removes all my file" What is 'it'?
"coppied a file from .mozilla to Document and wanted to upload it to my backup and when I Cancelled it"
copied how and what 'it' did you cancel ?

My first thought is maybe your home dir is unmounting itself because of errors ?
I've never used xfs so don't know the default options ?
But that is one explanation for how files could appear to magically vanish. Then you would see any files which already existed in /home before /dev/sdb1 is mounted on top of it.

Have you checked your mounts before and after this happens ?

If you mount /dev/sdb1 somewhere else do you see your files?

I'd be tempted to comment out the home partition in fstab for a while, copy from your backup to home dir on root / and see if it stops happening. If it does stop it's got to be to do with the mount. If it doesn't then you must have some rogue program deleting your files. The latter seems unlikely but within the realms of possibility.

Re: HOME Directory files disappears randomly

Reply #2 – 14 March 2024, 20:10:53

If it's not a mount issue the "audit" selinux logging tool might help reveal what's happening if you set up a watch on the affected files / directories but it could take a bit of reading to learn how to get it to do that.