Home directory deleted

[Varsha Jaikumar]

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 9.04. Somehow my home directory has got deleted. I have two accounts, and the home directories of both the users have been deleted, and all my essential data is gone too. I don't want to reinstall, because this won't bring back my data, which are important for the exams too. Please help. It is very urgent. :(

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Varsha Jaikumar
Computer Science & Engineering (3rd Year)
National Institute of Technology
Durgapur
Blog: http://varshamyspace.blogspot.com/

[Roshan Singh]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 9.04. Somehow my home directory has got deleted. I have two accounts, and the home directories of both the users have been deleted, and all my essential data is gone too. I don't want to reinstall, because this won't bring back my data, which are important for the exams too. Please help. It is very urgent. :(

How is this possible ?

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[Abhishek]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 9.04. Somehow my home directory has got deleted. I have two accounts, and the home directories of both the users have been deleted, and all my essential data is gone too. I don't want to reinstall, because this won't bring back my data, which are important for the exams too. Please help. It is very urgent. :(

How is this possible ?

Recover data with "foremost" .try it.Dont know how it work.



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[Varsha Jaikumar]

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 9.04. Somehow my home directory has got deleted. I have two accounts, and the home directories of both the users have been deleted, and all my essential data is gone too. I don't want to reinstall, because this won't bring back my data, which are important for the exams too. Please help. It is very urgent. :(

How is this possible ?

I don't know. I just know k delete ho gaya. I am using the account oracle created after Oracle installation. It does not have any data. :(

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[Anuj Kalbalia]

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/recover-deleted-files-with-foremostscalpel-in-ubuntu.html

try this. hope this help you.

Anuj

[Varsha Jaikumar]

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/recover-deleted-files-with-foremostscalpel-in-ubuntu.html

try this. hope this help you.

I have tried Scalpel before. It did not work.

[Varsha Jaikumar]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/recover-deleted-files-with-foremostscalpel-in-ubuntu.html

try this. hope this help you.

I have tried Scalpel before. It did not work. And Foremost requires a live CD, which I don't have.

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Varsha Jaikumar
Computer Science & Engineering (3rd Year)
National Institute of Technology
Durgapur
Blog: http://varshamyspace.blogspot.com/

[Anuj Kalbalia]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/recover-deleted-files-with-foremostscalpel-in-ubuntu.html

try this. hope this help you.

I have tried Scalpel before. It did not work. And Foremost requires a live CD, which I don't have.

what abt testdisk?

Anuj 

[Varsha Jaikumar]

maine sab kuch bahot din pehle kar k dekh liya tha for some other directory. I did not get any result.

Anuj 

[Varsha Jaikumar]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 9.04. Somehow my home directory has got deleted. I have two accounts, and the home directories of both the users have been deleted, and all my essential data is gone too. I don't want to reinstall, because this won't bring back my data, which are important for the exams too. Please help. It is very urgent. :(

I can do:

mkdir /home; mkdir /home/username

 

sudo chown -R username /home/username && chmod -R 755 /home/username

But this won't restore my data.

[Varsha Jaikumar]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 9.04. Somehow my home directory has got deleted. I have two accounts, and the home directories of both the users have been deleted, and all my essential data is gone too. I don't want to reinstall, because this won't bring back my data, which are important for the exams too. Please help. It is very urgent. :(

 

The home directories are there (not deleted), but are not being detected. I have backed up the data, and now I am going reinstall. I want an Ubuntu 9.10 CD. Could anyone please get me the CD?

[vignesh]

>
> The home directories are there (not deleted), but are not being
> detected. I have backed up the data, and now I am going reinstall. I
> want an Ubuntu 9.10 CD. Could anyone please get me the CD?

Can you paste the output of "mount" command and "fdisk -l" command here?

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[Varsha Jaikumar]

Can you paste the output of "mount" command and "fdisk -l" command here?

This I have done from the current account I am using, as I am not able to login using my own account.

 

$ mount
/dev/sda8 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-16-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
/dev/sda9 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /usr/lib/oracle/xe/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=oracle)
/dev/sda5 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda1 on /media/disk-1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda3 on /media/disk-2 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)


fdisk -l gave no output.

[Varsha Jaikumar]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Varsha Jaikumar <var...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 9.04. Somehow my home directory has got deleted. I have two accounts, and the home directories of both the users have been deleted, and all my essential data is gone too. I don't want to reinstall, because this won't bring back my data, which are important for the exams too. Please help. It is very urgent. :(

 

The home directories are there (not deleted), but are not being detected. I have backed up the data, and now I am going reinstall. I want an Ubuntu 9.10 CD. Could anyone please get me the CD?

Ubuntu 9.04 would do.

--
Varsha Jaikumar
Computer Science & Engineering (3rd Year)
National Institute of Technology
Durgapur
Blog: http://varshamyspace.blogspot.com/

[vignesh]

> fdisk -l gave no output.
>

Forgot to ask you to do it as a sudo user
try "sudo fdisk -l"

[Varsha Jaikumar]

> fdisk -l gave no output.
>

Forgot to ask you to do it as a sudo user
try "sudo fdisk -l"

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdead3135

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4079    32762880    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4080       14505    83746845    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3           14506       19458    39777280    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5            4080        9178    40957686    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            9179       11090    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7           14008       14505     4000153+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8           11091       12335    10000431   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           12336       14007    13430308+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order