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11-23-2009, 02:21 PM
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Registered: Oct 2009
Distribution: Slackware 13.0
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Home dir gone!?
Ok, i just checked my home directory,...and it's gone....is there anyway I can recover it!?
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11-23-2009, 02:24 PM
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The obvious reply is not a good news.
You can't.
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11-23-2009, 02:26 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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I think we'll need just a bit more detail.....
What were you doing before is disappeared?
Is the system running?
What happens if you re-boot?
In principle, things can be recovered using something like testdisk or photorec. If you had any really valuable data, the don't do anything that would cause a write to the disk (including rebooting)
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11-23-2009, 02:27 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Originally Posted by Chirel
The obvious reply is not a good news.
You can't.
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Yes you can---see my post. |
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11-23-2009, 02:27 PM
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Distribution: Slackware 13.0
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I think I deleted it as root...
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11-23-2009, 02:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixellany
Yes you can---see my post.
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You are right.
It's just that's harder to explain how to use this kind of software, than giving the official linux reply. And you have no 100% success.
As you know, for example for ext4 the official reply is, you can't.
I made a short reply, sorry  |
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11-23-2009, 03:58 PM
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ok, how can i download and run one of these tools? I have no idea what I am doing...
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11-23-2009, 04:10 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karas
ok, how can i download and run one of these tools? I have no idea what I am doing...
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If that's really true---AND if there is valuable data---then get the drive to a professional recovery service.
Otherwise:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/
The other good option, if there is no valuable data, is to simply re-install. |
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11-23-2009, 04:35 PM
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OK, but how do i download and run it via command line?
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11-23-2009, 04:46 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karas
OK, but how do i download and run it via command line?
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There are instructions at the site (I don't remember any details)
testdisk is available using my package manager (in Arch). it might be for your distro also. |
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