SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

[Richard Vickery]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:

>  Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project.
>
> This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend ,he said he
> just exited from playing his Games to logging onto the internet with
> Firefox. and something popped up about robo.......... and he could not
> restart computer.
> It would come up to "rescue grub" at bootup, I checked the partitions with
> gparted it changed the  / an /home partitions to "UNKNOWN".  It crashed two
> partitions
>
> I finally got the img of sda2 on to external hard drive 26gb.
>
> Then I did a e2fsck /dev/sda2 it took e2fsck about 45 mins to fix the sda2
> partition , One of Two users /home directories was totally gone , the one
> tjhat was being used at CRASH time.  But the one that was not being used
> and had the important data to be saved was still intact.
>
> I have never seen a Linux computer crashed this bad.
>
>
> THANK GOD FOR THE GUYS THAT DEVELOPE  E2FSCK.
>
>
You ought to back everything up on an external drive for this person.
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