On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:50 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 15:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: >> $ find / -iname "*.jpg" -or "*.JPG" > > Minor points that probably have no effect unless there's a *.jpg file in > the current directory: use single, not double quotes, to avoid shell > expansion. Not directly relevant to the subject of the thread, but double quotes are fine here. The only difference between single and double quotes is that shell variable references are expanded in the double quotes but not the single quotes. Glob patterns, whitespace, command separators, etc. are quoted in both cases. On the original topic ... have you checked in /var/log for log file entries that might provide a clue to what happened? It might be possible to recover the lost files from the ext3 journal: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html