Can't reboot, shutdown, or init 3 [help]

[Kevin]

The first thing I would do is scour the net for
recovery software which supports ext2 (the most
prominent on in my mind being spinrite v6
www.grc.com), most of which will attempt recovery and
NOT write to the drive AT ALL.  Most of these run a
free version of MSDOS, so there is no mounting or
possibility of anything writing to the drive.  I just
spent 2 weeks (18+hours a day) recovering my 160gig
and managed to get all of what I needed.  I found it
was worth the effort for several reasons:

1) I got valuable files back, saving me weeks of
config options
2) it made me appreciate the need for greater system
security
3) I gained an understanding of file systems, storage
methods and recovery options
4) made me apply better storage methods with data
recovery in mind (hindsight), ie zero-ing a drive
before use, and using seperate partitions for
constantly changing data, ie /var /home et al
4) encouraged me to have multiple backups and to test
backups rather than just relying on one simple
tarball!

The sad thing is tha these are all things I already
knew, it's computer systems 101 stuff!

I guess complacency is a side effect of age and
experience!

--- Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am So, den 03.04.2005 schrieb Arthur Pemberton um
> 21:54:
> 
> 
> > I really need some advice, my mysql tables have
> been deleted during the 
> > break in, and somehow, my backup system seemed to
> have had a flaw in it 
> > which only made me think my tables were being
> dumped.
> > 
> > I need to know how I can go about recovering my
> mysql tables.
> 
> I summarize: the intruder erased your MySQL tables
> and your backup holds
> nothing but flat, empty "backup" files? How do you
> think we could give
> you back your data? Sorry, I fear you have lost them
> completely. An
> initial MySQL mysql table will be created if you
> start with a new MySQL
> server installed on Fedora while starting the server
> the first time.
> Maybe you speak about that table.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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