<DIV>>Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:08:56 -0700<BR>>From: stan <goedigi89__e@cox.net><BR>>Subject: Re: DVD update causes data loss<BR>>To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using<BR>> Fedora." <fedora-list@redhat.com><BR>>Message-ID: <49415738.9050407@cox.net><BR>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312<BR>><BR>>ÍõÕÙ·å wrote:<BR>>> I happen to start my laptop with a DVD(containing Fedora 10 iso file) in <BR>>> the CD-ROM,<BR>>> so it enters the installation or update environment, I didn't feel like <BR>>> to reset, so I moved on,<BR>>> chose the update choice, hoping it will do nothing while going on, but <BR>>> after update completed, the reset failed<BR>>> I started the machine, logined with old account 'houghes', but it said: <BR>>> home/houghes doesn't exist!<BR>>> so I lost all the data in my home directary!<BR>>> help! this is really frustrating<BR>><BR>>You don't provide enough information to really tell, but it<BR>>sounds like you *installed* F10 instead of updating. The<BR>>default during install is to overwrite existing partitions.<BR>> If this is the case, your old OS is definitely gone. Check<BR>>the home directory contents by doing ls -al /home .<BR>>If there is nothing there, your data is probably gone.<BR>><BR>>But also check if there are any partitions outside your<BR>>current OS by running /sbin/blkid or df. If there are,<BR>>perhaps one of them was ignored by the update and actually<BR>>contains your old home directory with all your data. You<BR>>should be able to then mount that directory and copy the old<BR>>data to your new home directory.<BR>><BR>>Post back if you are still having problems.<BR>><BR>>An installation DVD is dangerous if you don't give it<BR>>respect. To prevent this in future you should go into the<BR>>bios of your laptop as it is starting and change the boot<BR>>order so that HD is used before CD/DVD. Then you have to<BR>>manually change it back before you can start an install DVD.<BR>><BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Thank you very much!</DIV> <DIV>But the result turns out to be really surprising:</DIV> <DIV>the df -k rusult seems different from before, and I find</DIV> <DIV>etc/fstab is different from /etc/fstab.anacone while the latter </DIV> <DIV>seems to be my former directary structure,</DIV> <DIV>so I overwrite etc/fstab by /etc/fstab.anacone, then</DIV> <DIV>my lost directary /home/houghes together with the containt come back!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am happy though I am still not clear of what happened.</DIV> <DIV>Thanks stan!</DIV></DIV><br><br> <hr> <font style="font-size:12px;line-height:15px;">[广告] </font><font style="font-size:12px;line-height:15px;">重奖 </font><a style="font-size:12px;line-height:15px; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;" href="http://popme.163.com/link/004584_1120_7027.html">悬赏kfc3v3 球衣</a>