Killed /home during install of another distro

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Monday 30 July 2007 06:19:07 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. 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.
>
> More info: This is a Dell Inspiron machine, 2.0GHz dual-core Intel
> processor, 2GB RAM, 80GB 7000RPM hard drive, ATI X1400 video. The disk
> is partitioned with sda1: 15GB /; sda2: 15 GB blank (Fedora was to go
> here) ; sda3: 3GB swap ; sda4: ~47 GB /home. I set these partitions a
> few months ago when I last installed Ubuntu. I had begun install of
> Fedora 7 when the machine crashed- I didn't get to the real install
> part. Upon rebooting (into Ubuntu), it complained something about
> inodes. I gave it the root password (yes, I had previously set a root
> password) and ran fsck (or something else resembling a rather
> unacceptable work, appropriate name by the way). A few Y, Y, Y's later
> I could boot the system. However, as soon as I logged into KDE I was
> returned to the login screen. I CTRL-ALT-F4ed into a terminal and
> logged in as root. I then cd'ed into /home, and ls showed that there
> was nothing there. I immediately ran shutdown -h and now that I'm home
> I'm writing from the wife's desktop.
>
> Any help in recovering the /home/user directory, or even specific
> files therein, would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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Hello Dotan,
You can try to look at /home direktori whether there's a directory called 
lost+found. Fsck will store any 'unlinked' files and directories there. But, 
if you don't have the directory, you can check in you '/' for any lost+found 
directory.
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