On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Jürgen Landsmann wrote:
Our home-directories are located on a separate HDD (30GB, 1 large primary ext3 partition) and until yesterday it worked correctly.
...30 GB and no backups?
Because the partition was nearly full we had to enlarge our home-space by moving it to a larger HDD. We decided to try a copy of whole partition by using gparted from the "SystemRescueCd" (http://www.sysresccd.org).
Why would you do this? What's wrong with tar/cp?
Because we thought that the reason of this crash was caused by an error in the APM-funcionality we tried it once more by booting the kernel using the "noapm" parameter. But even this try crashed ...
Any more details regarding the crashes? log messages, sysrq-t available?
The directory containing the userfiles was completely gone an in "lost&found" there are hundreds of items.
Ouch :( Not much you can do here. I'd take a first look with "file /lost+found/*"to see if there's something useful in there. ext2/3-recovery tools are out there, but I guess you'll have to try a few and see if they can recover anything:
- e2undel, recover (both available as debian packages in unstable) - R-Linux, a free (as in beer) recovery tool for win32 (works pretty good though) - ...and then there's always grep(1) & friends :( hth, Christian. -- make bzImage, not war
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