Re: Lost /home partition

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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