Recovering a Crashed Fedora

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 04:20:28 UTC 2015


On 01/28/2015 08:53 PM, Mickey wrote:
> I have a Fedora 15 hard drive that crashed and I want save the Users 
> files.
>
> I have a Fedora 20 Live Cd on the computer and I can read the users 
> home directory.
>
> I want to do a tar -cvf on the Users home directory and temporyly 
> store it on my PC until I do a complete install  of fedora 20 on the 
> crashed drive.
>
> I'm going to remove the hard drive from the crashed computer to my PC 
> and tar -cvf from there and tempory store the tar file there until I 
> make the new install.
>
> But what I'm concerned about is that Root will change the owner of the 
> Tar files. after i do the new install it will have the same user on 
> the crashed drive.
>
> Then I will put the user files back onto the new Fedora 20 install.
Tar should preserve ownership. I suggest that before you untar user dirs,
you create those users in the new system, then untar the user dirs.

Good luck.



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