No more /home after botched Fedora install

Serg B. sergicles at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 23:49:24 UTC 2007


Yeah, fsck probably did... I think you just lost the peddle and the
creek is a little smelly. Hopefully somebody else will have the answer
but I doubt that anything can be done here.

  Serg


On 30/07/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/07/07, Serg B. <sergicles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > First however, unmount the home partition or turn the machine off all
> > together to avoid overriding any data on the disk.
> >
> > Second, waht file system are you using?
> >
> > Also, depending on what file system the /home partition is using,
> > recovery could be possible. However if you are using ext3 then cut
> > your losses and move on - been there, done that. All articles on ext3
> > recovery seem to say that it can not be done if you have deleted the
> > data (not crash, deleted) due to the way ext3 deletes files.
> >
>
> Er, it was ext3. I didn't rm the files per se, however fsck may have
> effectively done that?
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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