On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 12:35 +0800, 王召峰 wrote: > >Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:09:56 -0700 > >From: Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: Re: /home directary data loss > >To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using > > Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Message-ID: <1231650596.4520.650.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > >On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 12:41 +0800, 王å�¬å³° wrote: > >> Help! > >> I used "yum update" updated my system the other day, then I > restarted > >> the computer, but it couldn't get in! > >> So I used the DVD containing Fedora ISO to rescue the system, but I > >> still saw nothing in /home/houghes which stores all my important > >> files! > >> But then my first aim was to get the system up, and I used the DVD and > >> chose "update existing sytem" hoping to get back to the point where I > >> hadn't updated Fedora using "yum update". Though this is not the > >> result, I got it! > >> But I still couldn't see anything in /home/houghes ! > >> And since the system start-up process is so different from before, I > >> covered /boot/grub/grub.conf with /boot/grub/grub.conf~ , and the > >> start-up is normal now! > >> But how Can I Get My /home/houghes data back?! Help! > >---- > >Is it possible that /home was on a separate partition and isn't mounted? > > > >what do you get when run > the following commands? > > > >fdisk -l /dev/sda > >mount > > > >Craig > > > > > following is got by running fdisk -l /dev/sda and mount: > [root@joggerwang ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x662db0cb > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 26 8948 71673997+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 8949 10860 15358140 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 10861 19457 69055402+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 10861 12772 15358108+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 12773 14684 15358108+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 14685 15703 8185086 83 Linux > /dev/sda8 15704 16340 5116671 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 16341 19457 25037271 8e Linux LVM > [root@joggerwang ~]# mount > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) > /proc on /proc type proc (rw) > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > /dev/sda6 on /usr type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda3 on /opt type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon > (rw,nosuid,nodev) > > > /dev/sda2 ought to be the partition I seperated for /home, > and /dev/sda7, /dev/sda8 are seperated for /usr/local and /tmp > respectively, so I tried to add three lines in /etc/mtab for them as > follows: > /dev/sda2 /home ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/sda7 /usr/local ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/sda8 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0 > and in /etc/fstab as follows: > UUID=61b8990c-043e-4d1f-9a37-7f330cc49eb5 /home > ext3 defaults 1 1 > UUID=0cf03423-386b-407b-a60b-54c076692d77 /usr/local > ext3 defaults 1 1 > UUID=d8297ee9-bd48-4b2c-a81a-ba0afdf42d0d /tmp > ext3 defaults 1 1 > but my files in /home/houghes still don't come out! > What should I do? ---- first, take a looksee at /dev/sda2 and see if that really is your old /home... mkdir /home/oldhome mount /dev/sda2 /home/oldhome ls -l /home/oldhome if it is, you can figure out the UUID of /dev/sda2, probably just by doing... # ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ and putting that UUID into /etc/fstab for a /home mount I don't think that editing mtab is going to be useful. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
