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Recovering from mount gone wrong

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1218 / 3 Years ago, thu, august 5, 2021, 8:50:40

I was trying to break some files out of my VirtualBox install of Ubuntu, and I accidentally mounted a VirtualBox shared folder onto ~, thereby erasing the very files I was trying to get at. Is there any way to recover my hard work, or am I just going to have to sudo rm -f /bin/mount and start over?

And no, I don't seriously intend to rm -f /bin/mount.

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answered 3 Years ago terneive · Accepted Answer

Mounting just hides the files under the mount point, it doesn't change them. If you unmount the VB share, you'll see your files again. You don't even need to unmount the share; you can move it:

mkdir /media/foo

mount --move ~ /media/foo