Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Frankly, as long as your backups are not degraded the odd spot of degradation in your English is probably less worrying. I am planning . . . to remove the hard drives from my Linux box and stick them in external boxes and have Disk Drill look at thenm from my Mac OS 10.7.5 machine: I would be

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

My english skills are degrading at a high rate of speed apparently. Fixes: "set it up clean and up to date" and "at the end of each day, multicast the clean image to all computers to prep for the next day" On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > If you have

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

If you have a spare machine and a large drive to store images, you might look at FOG. When I was working at the local computer lab it was very helpful since people can be..shall we say, destructive. We had a couple groups of machines, and would use one as master. Set it up clean and up to day,

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Unfortunately it is not a matter of permissions: I have been reliably informed that my boot partition has been set to "unallocated space" and that my 'home' partition, while retaining the file structure (directories and so forth) conatins no actula files beyond a few GIF files. Richmond. On

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 11/28/16 9:25 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Anything noteworthy in ~/.bash_history, /var/log/auth.log, or >> /var/log/syslog? >> >> Are those files even remaining? >> > There seems to be no way to get at those files if they still remain > on the partition. If it's

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

No: the root account was not enabled, and as the thing won't boot there is no way one can tell if a password has been changed. Running *extundelete* from a live disk keeps giving this sort of message on all the partitions of all the disks inside the machine: Failed to restore inode 11796494 to

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

There seems to be no way to get at those files if they still remain on the partition. Richmond. On 11/28/16 9:25 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Once *extundelete* told me "space has been reallocated" I knew > everything was cooked. It may not be recoverable, but I'm

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Can anything not running as root even do this?? And if not, is root account enabled? and if so, has the password been changed? Bob S On Nov 28, 2016, at 11:25 , Richard Gaskin > wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Once

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Once *extundelete* told me "space has been reallocated" I knew > everything was cooked. It may not be recoverable, but I'm curious as to how it happened in the first place. Anything noteworthy in ~/.bash_history, /var/log/auth.log, or /var/log/syslog? Are those

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Once *extundelete* told me "space has been reallocated" I knew everything was cooked. Richmond. On 11/28/16 5:30 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: > I was unaware that there was malware for Linux :( Everything is hackable. > I turned on my Xubuntu system this morning and

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Thanks for the advice and comfort. On 11/28/16 6:28 am, Kay C Lan wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am slowly recovering my stuff: estimated completion about 2 weeks . . . Ouch. But surely a better Disk Utility Tool would help

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Richmond Mathewson wrote: > I was unaware that there was malware for Linux :( Everything is hackable. > I turned on my Xubuntu system this morning and found *nothing*, > > so I started the machine up from a GParted boot disk and found that > not only had my boot disk been deleted, all the

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > I am slowly recovering my stuff: estimated completion about 2 weeks . . . Ouch. But surely a better Disk Utility Tool would help reduce that. It's unlikely that the files are gone; especially if the

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

Not as much as for Windows, but still some. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Richmond Mathewson < richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am slowly recovering my stuff: estimated completion about 2 weeks

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

I am slowly recovering my stuff: estimated completion about 2 weeks . . . I was naive enough to think that backing up data onto other hard drives within the same computer was safe. I was unaware that there was malware for Linux :( Richmond. On 11/27/16 10:39 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: On

Re: [OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

On 11/27/16 5:43 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I turned on my Xubuntu system this morning and found *nothing*, so I started the machine up from a GParted boot disk and found that not only had my boot disk been deleted, all the files on my other 2 hard drives had vanished and were not

[OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

I turned on my Xubuntu system this morning and found *nothing*, so I started the machine up from a GParted boot disk and found that not only had my boot disk been deleted, all the files on my other 2 hard drives had vanished and were not recoverable by GParted. I would be most grateful for