SOS : All my data is gone!
Jean-Sébastien Guay <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha |
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Hi everyone, Everyone's worst nightmare just happened to me. For no reason (that I can see), all my data is gone from my Gentoo Alpha machine. I'll start from the beginning... The machine was running for about 4 days since last reboot. Everything seemed fine. I had logged in through SSH from another machine and was trying to do an emerge --sync, and it gave me lots of messages saying that /var/cache/edb/... was read-only. For some reason, the / filesystem was mounted read-only (it wasn't the last time I was working on it... after the last reboot). So I tried to remount / read-write, but it said it couldn't. So I figured had to reboot the system so it would remount it read-write. After the reboot, it came up with an error saying it couldn't mount the root fs, and that I had to fix things manually. I entered the root password, and ran fsck, answering yes to every prompt (as I always do, I don't know enough about the filesystem to say "No! Don't fix inode 39047850 because that'll break everything!"... ) When I was done, the system rebooted alone, and when MILO tried to start the kernel again, it wasn't there anymore. The whole root partition seems to be totally empty now. My /tmp and /var/tmp partitions are still there though... *grins sheepishly* Why isn't it ever those partitions that get wiped out? :-( I had lots of data that I would rather not have lost on that partition (though I can rebuild the system, nothing was absolutely essential, but it would take a long time to get it back to how it was). So my question is, let's say I boot with a Gentoo LiveCD, is there anything I can do to try and recover some data from that partition? Or is everything gone forever? (I REALLY hope the former is true, and not the latter...) Help me Gentoo-Alpha List, you're my only hope... Thanks in advance, J-S -- ___________________________________________ Jean-Sébastien Guay [email protected] http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.13 - Release Date: 2005/04/16 -- [email protected] mailing list