On 14/07/2009, at 2:42 AM, Geoffrey Cowling wrote:
This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what to do about it would be very welcome. I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x ... everything froze, and when I goto ut (it rebooted) there was only a Error 15: File not found. This was Ubuntu 8.04
Were you addicted to root, the superuser? It's a common phenomena for new users to get addicted to the power of root and do everything as root. I know I did. That was before SUA, Super User Anonymous. Now I do everything as an ordinary user, and sudo when I need. I would try and find your root partition by mounting all /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb3 etc etc. But at least you've got home, and on a separate partition, worse comes to worse you might have to reinstall leaving /home intact. -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
