On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen 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. > > A corrupted /home should not keep you from booting. You may need to go > single-user or init=/bin/sh but it should boot. > > Probably should have backed up more recently. It sounds like you made > things worse with the YYY. > > Good luck. > > Doug. >
Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? 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]
