Re: Lost Files (Gene Heskett)
by 王召峰
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:11:30 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Lost Files
To: jolmstead1(a)gmail.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and
advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Message-ID: <200904240611.30464.gene.heskett(a)verizon.net>
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On Friday 24 April 2009, jolmstead wrote:
>I screwed up and now I am in a bad spot. I hope someone can help me. I am
> pretty new to Linux. I am just taking my first course and setup a laptop
> with Fedora Core 10 and Windows Vista dual booting.
>
>Because of so many bugs and my lack of expertise my wife wanted me to move
> all of her OpenOffice.org files from the Linux operating system to Vista.
> So I thought I could just move everything from her home directory to the
> /media/disk directory and all would be good.
>
>Well, from the command prompt I created a folder in /media/disk and moved
> everything there. Then I booted into Vista and the folder wasn't there. I
> thought Windows maybe can't read the directory created by Linux so I went
> back to Linux and to my surprise it was missing from there too! Now it's
> nowhere to be found and I'm afraid everything she had is lost. Does anyone
> know of a way I can retrieve those files?
I don't believe there is, unless someone has written an undelete for ext3.
/media is generally used as a mount point, and you must have a disk actually
mounted there for the files to be non-volatile. I just did a similar thing
with a new 1 TB disk, I thought I had it mounted to /mnt/amandatapes-1-T and
ran my initialize script, then umounted it and mounted it where it really
goes. Didn't work, it must not have been mounted correctly. Fortunately,
there was nothing precious lost.
Basically, one should have a little paranoia and copy, then verify the copy is
there before deleting the originals. Regardless of the OS.
>Thank you,
>Jeremy
>
>
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At last there is one thing you can try to retrieve your wife's files:
unmount the hard disk from your laptop and put it into a mobile hard disk box,
then on aother computer use data recovery tools like "EasyRecovery" to get your lost date back,
Good luck!
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by anonymous
I wanted to change the screen resolution used during the gdm and map some
buttons on my mouse. I normally accomplish this using an xorg.conf file, but
I noticed that Fedora (and every other distro) no longer uses this as it's
not even present. I read on the Fedora Forums that one could still create
it, place it in /etc/X11, and Xorg would use it. I tried that, but it
didn't use it. After some searching, it appears that Xorg uses HAL for
everything now and that I must use HAL's fdi configuration files. I saw
examples to configure the mouse, but none to configure the resolutions. I
then read on a forum that you can cause xorg.conf to be read by including
the Option "AutoAddDevices" False in the ServerFlags section. So I tried
that and now I'm locked out.
Is there any good documentation on what I'm trying to accomplish?
I noticed everything on HAL, and Xorg in general, is very dated, at around
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Currently I have the plymouth boot going so I'm not sure how to stop the
process.
Also, on a side note, does anyone know how to change the number of
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Hello all,
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Since then my system has been broken. I have reverted to
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until gdm should take over and offer log in possibilites.
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--
Scanned by iCritical.
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Lost Files
by potat0
I screwed up and now I am in a bad spot. I hope someone can help me. I am pretty new to Linux. I am just taking my first course and setup a laptop with Fedora Core 10 and Windows Vista dual booting.
Because of so many bugs and my lack of expertise my wife wanted me to move all of her OpenOffice.org files from the Linux operating system to Vista. So I thought I could just move everything from her home directory to the /media/disk directory and all would be good.
Well, from the command prompt I created a folder in /media/disk and moved everything there. Then I booted into Vista and the folder wasn't there. I thought Windows maybe can't read the directory created by Linux so I went back to Linux and to my surprise it was missing from there too! Now it's nowhere to be found and I'm afraid everything she had is lost. Does anyone know of a way I can retrieve those files?
Thank you,
Jeremy
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I recently decided that my build server was running too slow (disk
bound) and went out and bought a 3ware 9650SE controller and disks.
Got the array configured as a single RAID 5 logical unit (yes, I know,
RAID 5 has slow writes...) and ran fdisk on the unit to create partitions.
I formatted the partitions...
I mounted each of the partitions and did the following:
# cd /old-fs-mnt-point
# find . -depth -mount -print0 | cpio --null -pdv /new-fs-mnt-point
then I ran:
# mkswap ...
# hal-device | less
to get the UUID's. I edited the new /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab
and rebooted. Oops. Didn't quite work. Needed to change the BIOS
drive assignment order so that the array was now /dev/sda.
Rebooted.
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drive number... don't understand why that's relevant, but that's a
different story...
So I reran the installer, using a small partition that I had left for
whatever... and it wrote the boot blocks and MBR.
Editted /boot/grub/grub.conf to change back the default to what I
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Now the system hangs at:
Red Hat nash version 6.0.52 starting
Unable to access resume device (/dev/sda3)
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: No such file or
directory
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
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switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
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filesystems... I'm not using LVM)... and I thought the whole UUID
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15 years
