[ILUG] Data recovery

[Conor Wynne]

On 9 Dec 2005, at 22:38, Niall O Broin wrote:

> On 9 Dec 2005, at 22:28, Michael Treacy wrote:
>
>> I backed up my data on my laptop about 3 weeks ago, upgraded SuSE  
>> 9.3 to SuSE 10.0 OSS and wasn't too happy with the result.
>>
>> So last night, I installed the full version of SuSE 10.0 choosing  
>> to set the installation as a new one rather than an upgrade.
>>
>> When I went to copy my backed up /home diurectory back on, I  
>> discovered to my horror that the backup had not been  
>> succesfull!!!! The CD was blank :(
>>
>> So, is there any chance that the files may still be on the  
>> laptop???? I'm not sure if the drive was formatted as part of the  
>> new installation or not.

Maybe anaconda will have recorded it? check.

>
> Only you can answer that. When you did the new install, SuSE will  
> have found the old partitions, and will have asked you what to do  
> with them. What did you decide? Is your disk now one big /  
> partition (maybe with a small /boot) ?  Was your /home originally a  
> separate partition, or just a directory on the / partition? (This  
> illustrates why the "one big /" idea for a single user workstation,  
> with local /home, is not the best idea)

Try :
fdisk -l
determine what partitions you have.

Then
e2label /dev/xxx

Anything not mounted?
cool, mount it.

All used?
Oh dear.

> Niall

Conor