On Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:13 pm Dotan Cohen wrote: > While installing Fedora 7 on a Dell Inspiron laptop previously running > Ubuntu, I had corrupted and then erased /home (sda4) by accident. > After a failed Fedora install, Ubuntu would not boot. Not knowing what > to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, > Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do have a backup > from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month, but I have > done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very interested in > recovering the data. Oh, I did that once. I doubt you'll be able to get the data back (I ended up having to recreate most of it when I accidentally fsck'ed away the contents of my /home folder). -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html