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| DATE | 2003-05-02 |
| FROM | Marco Scoffier
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] lost all information on home partition
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
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> I had a unexpected power shut down this morning (Super killed the buildings
> power with no warning). I had Mandrake 9.1 running with a reiser file
> system. when I rebooted the gui would not come up after logging in I cd
> into home typed ls -a and got "./ ../" I had just backup information on
> this unit the night before. Is there an easy way to recate the home
> information. or do I have to reinstall?
you can probably run reiserfsck on the partition and save it. Often
fsck can recognise that the partition is a reiserfs and runs reiserfsck
to fix it.
--
Marco
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