<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>>Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:09:56 -0700 <pre style="font-family: 宋体;">>From: Craig White <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com">craigwhite@azapple.com</a>> >Subject: Re: /home directary data loss >To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using > Fedora." <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a>> >Message-ID: <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:1231650596.4520.650.camel@lin-workstation.azapple.com">1231650596.4520.650.camel@lin-workstation.azapple.com</a>> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > >On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 12:41 +0800, çŽ‹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 > > </pre><div>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) </div>/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? <a target="_blank" href="http://allyes.nie.163.com/main/adfclick?db=afanie&bid=1698,833,77&cid=148,4,1&sid=1804&show=ignore&url=http://xyw.163.com/2008/heka/"></a> </div></div> <hr size=1><a href="http://cn.rd.yahoo.com/mail_cn/tagline/card/*http://card.mail.cn.yahoo.com/"> 好玩贺卡等你发，邮箱贺卡全新上线！</a></body></html>