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Old 11-25-2014
Directory missing .how to find the cause .

Hi,
i am using rhel6.4, i lost my directory under /home .is there any way to find the reason how that directory deleted and how to recover deleted folder.
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Old 11-25-2014
Unless you deleted the directory there is no reason for a directory to get lost...
except if you just rebooted your box and /home was a filesystem.. that did no get mounted
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Old 11-25-2014
Are you saying a directory in /home is missing or the entire /home directory?

Is /home on a separate drive?
 
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