No more /home after botched Fedora install

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 29 July 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> In 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.

First, make sure the empty /home is, in fact, the partition in question.  
Maybe it's not mounted, and maybe the empty /home is just the /home in the / 
partition.

I hope that proves to be the case, because if all your files disappeared after 
a fsck -y, then I think you're screwed.

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D. Michael McIntyre