On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) > > > > pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted > > ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in > > the meantime. > > > > However, by the time you are done it is usually not worth the > > effort it took. It's easier to reinstall and restore backups. But > > if there are some irreplaceable files on that disk, you have no > > choice. good luck to him. > > There's a home directory ... . What do you mean, Pat? /home still exists and is populated? Then the solution is easy. Back it up immediately. Re-install your whole system and restore /home. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
