Re: Lost /home partition

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 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

Hi Dotan,

So, when you boot up and get a prompt, I take it that /home is indeed
being mounted?  If so, one thing you might want to do, is look in
/home/lost+found , in there you might be able to find your files, but they
won't be named the same though.  If they are there, they will be named
numerically..


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