Re: Lost /home partition
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]
Re: Lost /home partition
On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost /home partition
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? It may have been placed in /home/lost+found named after its inode number, i.e. filenames that are all numbers. Failing that, no, probably not. If they are text files you may be able to unmount the device and grep the raw device file for known text in the files, e.g. # less /dev/sda4 '/' to search for text -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Lost /home partition
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? Undeletion in *NIX is either very difficult, expensive, or impossible. Unless you got lucky and they ended up in lost+found only slightly mangled. If you want to try recovery, unmount sda4 and remove it from fstab. With it mounted, things change. Then aptitude search ~drecover and look at some tools. Try something like foremost or magicrescue. Read the documentation, follow the instructions, and only mount the partition again if it says to. Often such tools work by reading the block device itself, bypassing the filesystem. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost /home partition
Dotan Cohen wrote: Now, /home is empty. Look in /home/lost+found. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost /home partition
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, 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. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ Hi Dotan, So, when you boot up and get a prompt, I take it that /home is indeed being mounted? If so, one thing you might want to do, is look in /home/lost+found , in there you might be able to find your files, but they won't be named the same though. If they are there, they will be named numerically.. -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost /home partition
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? Dotan Cohen Hi Dotan, So, when you boot up and get a prompt, I take it that /home is indeed being mounted? If so, one thing you might want to do, is look in /home/lost+found , in there you might be able to find your files, but they won't be named the same though. If they are there, they will be named numerically.. -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost /home partition
The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm... Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost /home partition
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:04:29AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm... df is your friend. Once you have it backed up, compare it with your previous backup. It is possible that some files may be missing. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost /home partition
On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:04:29AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm... df is your friend. Once you have it backed up, compare it with your previous backup. It is possible that some files may be missing. Doug. Thanks, Doug. That last backup is way out of date, so it would not be an accurate check. But I will go through it and check for missing files. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
