[Ubuntu-US-PA] Help Recovering Data from Grub Menu

[Aaron Couch]

hi Danny:

Thanks for your attention. I've loaded ubuntu 9.10 using the CD and can't
find the filesystem. df -Th gives me the following:

          squashfs    668M  668M     0 100% /rofs
none         tmpfs    1.8G  104K  1.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs        tmpfs    1.8G   40K  1.8G   1% /tmp
none         tmpfs    1.8G   96K  1.8G   1% /var/run
none         tmpfs    1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /var/lock
none         tmpfs    1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda3     ext4    194M   37M  148M  20%
/media/28dd2c26-f73d-434c-91f1-b6151dcbf834
/dev/sda2  fuseblk    135G   69G   66G  51% /media/OS

best,

-Aaron

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Danny Knestaut <dcknestaut at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Aaron,
>
> I can't help you on the tech explaination end, but if you boot from the
> Ubuntu CD and run the Live CD option, you should be able to access any file
> on the system.
>
> Good luck,
> Danny
>
> On Feb 15, 2010 9:58 AM, "Aaron Couch" <aaron at zivtech.com> wrote:
>
> hi Ubunut PAers:
>
> I have a problem. Maybe you can help out with some advice.
>
> I had a dual partition windows/ubuntu 9.10 machine. I was using virtualbox
> to install another OS when the machine froze. When I went restarted I
> couldn't boot into Ubuntu again. What I think happened is that there wasn't
> enough room left on the Ubuntu partition and so it overwrote some key files
> (any idea what those could have been? i'm interested if someone can explain
> what happened in any technical detail).
>
> So I can still load grub. I can see my old files. But I can't figure out
> how to get to them. I saw somewhere that I should be able to load in
> 'recovery mode' using a Ubuntu CD but I've loaded the CD and don't see an
> option for 'recovery mode'.
>
> It is ext4 so I can't use windows to get to the files (I've found tools to
> get to ext3 files from windows in another partition but not ext4). I also
> have Fedora running on the machine which uses ext4 but can't see the old
> ubuntu files from Fedora. Again if I restart I can still load grub and see
> the old ubuntu files.
>
> Any advice? Luckily I had most things backed up but there is definitely a
> couple of hours of work there I would love to get back.
>
>
> best,
>
>
> -Aaron
>
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