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#1 2006-08-23 13:16:24
- btw0
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fsck destroy my data?
The other day, I wrongly typed "fsck" command, then things went wrong. after reboot, it just says it can't mount sda7 (sda7 is my / ), is there any way to get my data back? Thanks.
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#2 2006-08-23 14:02:52
- mucknert
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Re: fsck destroy my data?
You should provide more information on that. What _exactly_ went wrong? Under what circumstances and why did you run fsck? Which Filesystem? And so on...
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#3 2006-08-23 14:03:15
- scarecrow
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Re: fsck destroy my data?
First of all you should be sure that your harrdisk is in good health.
And e2fsck/ reiserfsck should never be run on already mounted partitions (factly, they should be run manually only as a last resort).
You might try running a filesystem check from a liveCD, with your root partition unmounted and see if this corrects the problem.
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#4 2006-08-27 07:34:03
- btw0
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Re: fsck destroy my data?
You should provide more information on that. What _exactly_ went wrong? Under what circumstances and why did you run fsck? Which Filesystem? And so on...
That day I was boring, I typed "fsck" for no reason, then all the files in that ext3 filesystem (mount as root) were effectively destroyed, then whatever command i typed, bash reported file can't be found. After reboot, system can't get into the shell. that's it. Later in a partition program, I see that partition show as unknown, even not as ext3 filesystem. It's so easy to destroy a filesystem. I have had a good lesson.
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#5 2006-08-27 13:26:35
- Gullible Jones
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Re: fsck destroy my data?
That is why you are warned not to run fsck on a mounted filesystem...
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#6 2006-08-27 18:40:44
- kakabaratruskia
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Re: fsck destroy my data?
Weird... the other day, I could not boot, as fsck reported an error on the disk. I fscked from a live cd, and it did not work. Then I mounted the partition and fscked ignoring the warning messages. After that everything started working fine again, my system booted again, and no files where lost.
Probably I was just lucky....
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