aftermath of an ubuntu installation

[Nils Kassube]

Donny George wrote:
> i did sudo mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
>
> and it says
>
> /dev/hda5 looks like a swap space-not mounted.
> you must specify the filesystem
>
> i also did fdisk to verify the filetype of hda5 , its ntfs in it.

OK, then I think you have lost your data. Obviosly the partition really 
has been formatted as swap space during the installation for whatever 
reason. I think you should file a bug at 
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+filebug>. Just in case somebody else has 
an idea, you should better not change anything on the hda5 partition. But 
frankly, I don't have much hope.


Nils