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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]