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 <<a href="mailto:dcknestaut@gmail.com">dcknestaut@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Feb 15, 2010 9:58 AM, "Aaron Couch" <<a href="mailto:aaron@zivtech.com" target="_blank">aaron@zivtech.com</a>> 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 ---- Aaron Couch Project Manager | Developer Zivtech ~ Illuminating Technology Online: <a href="http://zivtech.com" target="_blank">http://zivtech.com</a> Offline: (215) 275 2529 </div></div>-- Ubuntu-us-pa mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-pa@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-us-pa@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pa" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pa</a> </blockquote> -- Ubuntu-us-pa mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-pa@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-pa@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pa" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pa</a> </blockquote></div>