Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 01:31 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 25 September 2012 00:55, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 09/24/2012 04:44 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:09:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan > >> wrote: > >> > >>> >On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/23/2012 07:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: Hi all, I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. But first: 1. The rant Clearly something bad is going on in Fedora world. I've be

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/23/2012 07:22 PM, Roger wrote: On 09/24/2012 02:09 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/23/2012 07:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: Hi all, I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I decided to share the solution, maybe it will help s

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 25 September 2012 00:55, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/24/2012 04:44 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >> >> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:09:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >> >>> >On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >>I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedor

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/24/2012 04:44 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:09:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >>I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I >>decided to share the solution, maybe it will help so

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:09:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >> I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I >> decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. > >This should be posted to the Fedora tes

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:36:41 -0500, "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: >On 09/24/2012 07:39 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >>> I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I >>> decided to share the solution, maybe it wil

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/2012 07:39 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >> I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I >> decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. > > Thi

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 13:33 +0200, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I > decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. This should be posted to the Fedora test list, not here. F18 is not a released system. poc -- users mailin

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/24/2012 03:55 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 24/09/12 00:43, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: It just seems that.of all the different methodsTHAT one is the safest. I've accumulated quite a few "irreplaceable" files throughout the years...and I'd hate to lose some or all of them due to

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On 24/09/12 00:43, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: It just seems that.of all the different methodsTHAT one is the safest. I've accumulated quite a few "irreplaceable" files throughout the years...and I'd hate to lose some or all of them due to a restructuring of the build for the installe

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-23 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/23/2012 07:22 PM, Roger wrote: On 09/24/2012 02:09 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/23/2012 07:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: Hi all, I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. But first: 1. The ra

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-23 Thread Roger
On 09/24/2012 02:09 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/23/2012 07:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: Hi all, I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. But first: 1. The rant Clearly something bad is going on

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-23 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/23/2012 07:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: Hi all, I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. But first: 1. The rant Clearly something bad is going on in Fedora world. I've been upgrading to Alphas/Betas f

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/23/2012 01:33 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > I realised that MBR and GPT where wiped out and all of my partitions > were nowhere to be found. A useful habit to have: fdisk -l /dev/sd? >save_this_file_away__it_could_be_important_some_day.txt -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it

How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-23 Thread Jakub Kicinski
Hi all, I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone. But first: 1. The rant Clearly something bad is going on in Fedora world. I've been upgrading to Alphas/Betas for years now and it never caused more trouble th