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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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 jean_seb@videotron.ca
http://whitestar02.webhop.org/
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