Thanks a lot for this reply
The output of the proposed tests are shown on the following screen picture :
http://bdebreil.free.fr/IMG_0906.jpg
As for partition sda2 : I don't remember having created this partition
when installing Stretch on this then newly bought desktop (2 years ago).
Isn'it funny that it shows the exact same size as that of the swap
partition sda5 ?
I doubt that I would have willingly created such a small partition...
maybe the install program created it...
Whether it did exist or not in my working system, one thing remains :
on the rescue mode, I cannot find my /home directory
Waiting for your advice and recommendations,
Bernard
Please post the output of following commands from the rescue console.
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> LANG=C lsblk -f
> LANG=C fdisk -l
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Le 04/04/2020 08:28, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 01:13:35, Bernard wrote:
Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages which I
will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in red
characters :
EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock
this repeated three times !
This *could* indicate a serious problem and attempts to fix it *could*
make it worse. It could also be a minor issue that is easily fixed.
Do you have an *empty* spare drive to copy your data to? Ideally you
should use 'dd' to take a complete image of sda and work on that
instead.
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/<spare drive> bs=1M status=progress
Warning: this will overwrite your data on the spare drive!
For this to work properly the spare drive should be same size (to the
byte!) or bigger than sda.
Before any recovery attempts let's try to find out how your drives are
partitioned.
Please post the output of following commands from the rescue console.
LANG=C lsblk -f
LANG=C fdisk -l
These are read-only commands so should be safe.
Kind regards,
Andrei
