Re: SOS : All my data is gone!

"Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday 16 April 2005 07:09 pm, Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote:
>
> 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

What maintenance activities have you done lately?  (Esp. those that led you to 
reboot, and those subsequent to then.)

> 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...)

I would guess yes, you can probably boot to a LiveCD and recover whatever 
could be recovered.  Just be careful to mount things read-only.

> Help me Gentoo-Alpha List, you're my only hope...

You're beauuuuuu-tiful!


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