Dir gone - how to get it back?

[rikona]

Hello Ric,

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 12:16:49 PM, Ric wrote:

> 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

Unfortunately, no - I had the same thought and looked there. Good
idea, though - thanks. 

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 rikona