Killed /home installing Fedora 7 with Ubuntu
Kelly
lightsolphoenix at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 01:05:53 UTC 2007
On Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:13 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> While installing Fedora 7 on a Dell Inspiron laptop previously running
> Ubuntu, I had corrupted and then erased /home (sda4) by accident.
> After a failed Fedora install, Ubuntu would not boot. 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.
Oh, I did that once. I doubt you'll be able to get the data back (I ended up
having to recreate most of it when I accidentally fsck'ed away the contents
of my /home folder).
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