Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
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. > > O

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
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 p

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
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 [

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
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. No

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff D
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, /hom

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread John Hasler
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

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
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 s

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
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

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
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

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
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 f

Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
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