Re: SOS : All my data is gone!

Have you tried booting with the latest LiveCD?  If so you may be able
mount the filesystem and read the data you need off (e.g. scp to another
host.)

I last tried the 2004.3 liveCD and was not able to read my DAC960 raid5
drives.   I've not tried the 2005.1 livecd yet, but I have been able to
recover before by booting my system off of the additional 9 GB drive I
have in the system.

Brian..

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 20:09 -0400, Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote:
> 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
> 
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