On 30/07/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home > partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not > knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, > I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do > have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month, > but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very > interested in recovering the data. > > More info: This is a Dell Inspiron machine, 2.0GHz dual-core Intel > processor, 2GB RAM, 80GB 7000RPM hard drive, ATI X1400 video. The disk > is partitioned with sda1: 15GB /; sda2: 15 GB blank (Fedora was to go > here) ; sda3: 3GB swap ; sda4: ~47 GB /home. I set these partitions a > few months ago when I last installed Ubuntu. I had begun install of > Fedora 7 when the machine crashed- I didn't get to the real install > part. Upon rebooting (into Ubuntu), it complained something about > inodes. I gave it the root paassword (yes, I had previously set a root > password) and ran fsck (or something else resembling a rather > unacceptable work, appropriate name by the way). A few Y, Y, Y's later > I could boot the system. However, as soon as I logged into KDE I was > returned to the login screen. I CTRL-ALT-F4ed into a terminal and > logged in as root. I then cd'ed into /home, and ls showed that there > was nothing there. I immediatly ran shutdown -h and now that I'm home > I'm writing from the wife's desktop. > > Any help in recovering the /home/user directory, or even specific > files therein, whould be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
False alarm.... A member of the Ubuntu list suggested that I check if the disk was in fact mounted... which it was not.... Valuable lesson learned cheap tonight. I'm burning a backup as we speak, and reading up on rsync. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
