Re: recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/17/2014 10:12 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: thanks to you both I was able to copy the data I was interested Very happy to hear that, Angelo! We're glad to help! A bit of research shows that on older systems (e.g. F17-19), the first user was given a default UID and GID of 500. In F20 and l

Re: recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-17 Thread Angelo Moreschini
thanks to you both I was able to copy the data I was interested Regards Angelo On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > > On 2014-12-16 10:31, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 12/16/2014 09:05 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I

Re: recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-16 10:31, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/16/2014 09:05 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I did it and now I have to restore the data from the old installation. Using an external support for the disc ("USB to SATA / IDE converter") I can access

Re: recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-16 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/16/2014 09:05 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I did it and now I have to restore the data from the old installation. Using an external support for the disc ("USB to SATA / IDE converter") I can access the old drive, and using Nautilus to see a

recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-16 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I did it and now I have to restore the data from the old installation. Using an external support for the disc ("USB to SATA / IDE converter") I can access the old drive, and using Nautilus to see all the data that I would recover, but I do not hav

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
> Is it possible to recover the memory and resume the program where it had to > terminate unexpectedly. It's gone when the power goes. > The program was running for 2-3 weeks, hence don't want to start the program > from fresh. I would check the documentation and see whether the software checkpo

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Nermin Celik
It depends on the design of the program but generally speaking, it's not > possible. Some programs save datafiles and the like as they run so in > those > cases it might be possible to recover and carry on from a mid-point in the > program run but unless the program is specifically designed to do

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Nermin Celik
> If it was written to "read, compute, write, cycle back", you could > probably start it up again at will. > > Yes it was mainly "read, compute,write" cycle. It was a perl program, running HMMer (hidden markov model program) on a set of genome data. I'm not familiar with UPS...??? -- users mail

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:49:19 +1000 Nermin Celik wrote: > Is it possible to recover the memory and resume the program where it had to > terminate unexpectedly. It depends on the design of the program but generally speaking, it's not possible. Some programs save datafiles and the like as they run

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:49 +1000, Nermin Celik wrote: > Hello, > > I've F12 installed on my PC. > An electricity cut happened while running a program on the terminal > line. A general electricity cut nothing to do with PC hardware > failure. Hence PC restarted itself after electricity was back

recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Nermin Celik
Hello, I've F12 installed on my PC. An electricity cut happened while running a program on the terminal line. A general electricity cut nothing to do with PC hardware failure. Hence PC restarted itself after electricity was back however the program that was runing terminated before completion. Is

Re: Recovering data :-(

2011-01-12 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/12/2011 05:56 PM, Donald Russell wrote: > An fdisk -l shows the two partitions (one is a boot partition, th eother > has a whole Fedora 13 system on it but it's an LVM partition. There is some work you need to do (it's not that straight). Do a google search on: livecd lvm partition I just

Re: Recovering data :-(

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Donald Russell wrote: > I've installed Fedora 14 from DVD on a brand new system and added this > older disk to it in the hope I can get some of the data off it. > > Any suggestions? You should have the drive visible to you within nautilus if this is the case. Fedora will automatically find your L

Recovering data :-(

2011-01-12 Thread Donald Russell
I have a disk that I pulled out of another machine. An fdisk -l shows the two partitions (one is a boot partition, th eother has a whole Fedora 13 system on it but it's an LVM partition. How can I mount that and see the files? In particular I want to recover some files from its /etc/mail director