I had some files in /root and /home/plex/scripts/

but I found they were all gone after a reboot. Only empty directories were left.

I searched online quickly and read some about array stop/start, so instead I just rebooted the system again.

But before doing that, I created an empty file in those directoreis to see if it goes missing again.

After another reboot, to my surprise, this time I even found the 'scripts' directory went missing under the 'plex' folder.

How can this happen? Why files / directories disappear every time I reboot?

 

root@Tower:/home/plex/scripts# ls
root@Tower:/home/plex/scripts# touch test
root@Tower:/home/plex/scripts# ls
test
root@Tower:/home/plex/scripts# cd ~
root@Tower:~# touch test
root@Tower:~# ls
mdcmd@  test
root@Tower:~# 
Broadcast message from root@Tower (Mon Feb 28 09:33:55 2022):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

Session was closed
Linux 5.10.28-Unraid.
root@Tower:~# ls
mdcmd@
root@Tower:~# cd ../home/plex/
root@Tower:/home/plex# ls
root@Tower:/home/plex# ls
root@Tower:/home/plex# ls

So you get what I mean with this.

First reboot: just files were gone. empty directories were left. created empty test files in those directories.

Second reboot: the empty directories were gone. Newly created files also went missing.

 

Edited February 28, 20224 yr by trick.tar

I think I found the reason.