Re: Lost /home partition
On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> 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 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.
>
Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing
references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back?
Dotan Cohen
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