Recover from system down status

[PIYUSH SINGH]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1 May 2011 19:54, PIYUSH SINGH <meetpiyush2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi
> > i was upgrading my system from 10.10 to 11.04 then suddenly the power
> went
> > down and my system got switched off .
> > now the root file system is not being mounted either manually or if i try
> to
> > recover it it's mounted with only a read only status even with root
> account
> > .
> > The system specs are
> > Compaq presario Cq45-207tu notebook
> > with intel dual core processor .
> >
> > Please help i cannot format the filesystem as i have important documents
> in
> > it .
> >
> >
> > thanks in advance
>
> Isn't read-only access enough for you to copy off your important
> documents etc. onto external media? You should be able to do this
> booted off a LiveCD. If you have settings and things you need to
> retain, copy your entire home directory:
>
> /home/{yourusername}
>
> Once you have 1 or ideally 2 copies of everything, I recommend that
> you wipe, reformat and reinstall from scratch.
>
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Actually some of the files permissions are set to 000 (by me ) and i am not
able to change them . i changed them (before) to stop unauthorized access .
i am not able to copy them and they are of great importance .
thanks for help

c009
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