Please help, Jow Forums. Lights went out in a pretty ugly way. When they came back, I found myself with pic related. The system loads, but the home drive is missing. Checking from a livecd, with gparted and fdisk, shows that sd5 is of an unknown filesystem now. I don't remember if it was ext5 or ext4. I wanna say ext4, but I'm not sure. I don't know what sd3 and sd4 were, but I don't really mind. If I can just backup what was in sd5 and format, that's fine by me.
Is there any way to recover the data that was in sd5, or am I fucked?
Fuck I'm repartitioning right now and I do it quite often
Connor Cruz
install gentoo and kys
Angel Diaz
Install arch
Grayson Thompson
The disk didn't fail. The OS partition is still working. What failed was the home partition, as well as others. The data should be there, and way back in the '90s I remember taking a failed HD to get ghosted or whatever, but I don't know if I can just set a flag or something in order to at least get access to the data so I can make a backup through wifi or burning DVDs or something. That's why I'm asking.
As you might notice from the flags, I actually had installed gentoo. In Calculate form.
And sorry about taking time to reply, but I'm using an outdated palemoon version and posting is fucking hell.
Evan Green
Begin by making a map of how the partitions were before, posting what operations did you try to perform on them, and at what point approximately did the lights go out. Also avoid using the drive as a boot drive, post from your phone or a live CD if you have to.
Tyler Wright
>Begin by making a map of how the partitions were before How would I go about that?
>posting what operations did you try to perform on them Nothing. After noticing only the OS partition had loaded, I ran an old version of puppy linux I had, and ran gparted and fdisk -l, the result of both of which are in OP.
I guess what I'm asking is, what operations could I try to perform on them?
>at what point approximately did the lights go out Around 12 hours ago.
> Also avoid using the drive as a boot drive, post from your phone or a live CD if you have to. Yeah, I'm posting from a puppy linux livecd I had customized a year or so ago. That's why I'm having to use an outdated version of palemoon.
Liam Rivera
>How would I go about that? from memory, try to guess what partitions did you have installed there. Just swap, root and home? >I guess what I'm asking is, what operations could I try to perform on them? So the system was just sitting there idle when the lights went out? Copying files? Browsing the web? If so this just doesn't make sense, ext4 has journaling so that the filesystem remains in a consistent state when it has a hard power off My advice is to get another drive with similar or bigger capacity, image the drive onto a file on the new drive, and then try to use filesystem repair tools on it
