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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.



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