Dir gone - how to get it back?

[Ric Moore]

On 05/15/2013 06:56 AM, tv.debian at googlemail.com wrote:
> On 15/05/2013 11:38, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 05/15/2013 01:14 AM, rikona wrote:
>>> I'm setting up a new 12.04 box. Just installed a few printers, which
>>> seemed to go OK - BUT, after that, one of my home dirs is GONE! Was a
>>> BIG one with about 1/3 of the stuff in home, and very important. Any
>>> idea of why just that dir [apparently] disappeared? Better still, any
>>> way to recover it? I can't see it via another admin account, or with
>>> the CLI. New box, a few days of intensive work, and didn't do a backup
>>> yet. :-(
>>>
>>> What's the best thing to do [not involving a large soothing glass of
>>> Scotch :-) ]?
>>
>> Did you by any chance have it on it's own partition? (could but hope) so
>> you need to only remount it? Ric
>>
>>
>>
>
> If you really can't find it :
>
> _has it been renamed to something funny, try looking for it with
> "ls -la"  in a console.
>
> _Look for it with a disk usage tool (baobab, filelight) or from a
> console with something like "du -a ~ 2> /dev/null | sort -rg | less"
>
> _assume it's been deleted, try forensic tools like "extundelete",
> "magicrescue" or "photorec" (from the "testdisc" package, good for many
> file types, not only images). Look into the "/lost+found" folder.
>
> If possible you should try to work from an image of the disk, or from
> another system (live-cd possibly), because if the folder has been
> deleted your system is probably overwriting it right now by reusing the
> freed space...

Maybe they are all in the trashcan icon?? One could but hope blindly. Ric



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