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Lost /home partitionIn a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home More info: This is a Dell Inspiron machine, 2.0GHz dual-core Intel Any help in recovering the /home/user directory, or even specific Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Lost /home partition
On 30/07/07, 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.
>
> 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/
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Lost /home partition
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu)
But Ubuntu is not Debian. For Ubuntu problems you may want to use the
Ubuntu mailing lists.
Bob
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Lost /home partition
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu)
>
> But Ubuntu is not Debian.
is is true
> For Ubuntu problems you may want to use the
> Ubuntu mailing lists.
this is not true
please don't speak for other people, speak for your self.
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Florian Reitmeir
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Lost /home partition
Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > For Ubuntu problems you may want to use the Ubuntu mailing lists.
>
> this is not true
> please don't speak for other people, speak for your self.
Are you implying that the Ubuntu mailing lists are not friendly and
supportive mailing lists? I think the Ubuntu lists are good sources
of support and definitely recommend them.
Bob
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Lost /home partition
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > For Ubuntu problems you may want to use the Ubuntu mailing lists.
> >
> > this is not true
> > please don't speak for other people, speak for your self.
>
> Are you implying that the Ubuntu mailing lists are not friendly and
> supportive mailing lists? I think the Ubuntu lists are good sources
> of support and definitely recommend them.
i don't imply anything.
but after reading your mail someone could believe that the debian
mailinglists aren't "friendly and supportive mailing lists".
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Florian Reitmeir
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Lost /home partition
On 30/07/07, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> > > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > > For Ubuntu problems you may want to use the Ubuntu mailing lists.
> > >
> > > this is not true
> > > please don't speak for other people, speak for your self.
> >
> > Are you implying that the Ubuntu mailing lists are not friendly and
> > supportive mailing lists? I think the Ubuntu lists are good sources
> > of support and definitely recommend them.
>
> i don't imply anything.
> but after reading your mail someone could believe that the debian
> mailinglists aren't "friendly and supportive mailing lists".
>
> --
> Florian Reitmeir
>
Truth is, I did ask on the Ubuntu list as well. However, I have found
that the Ubuntu list is much less technical than other lists that I've
subscribed to, such as php-general or fedora-users. Too much
MS-bashing, not enough technical. I don't mean that in an offensive
way, however, quite the opposite. Ubuntu is aimed at MS-refugees. Tech
speak would likely scare a good portion of them away. But for serious
problem solving, I did not think that was the place.
And I've learned a lot just reading the Debian list these past few days.
Dotan Cohen
http://lyricslist.com/
http://what-is-what.com/
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