fsck needs to be run on each filesystem in turn. e2fsck -p /dev/hda1 e2fsck -p /dev/hda2 e2fsck -p /dev/hda3 e2fsck -p /dev/hda4 e2fsck -p /dev/hda5 if your system has only 1 hard drive. if it has more that 1 drive then the /dev/hda1 will probably be /dev/hdc1, c2, c3 and so on. The -p means "fix things automatically", so you shoukd be able to boot afterwards. About your user data in /home/maude/, all is not totally lost, though really I would recommend you get a friend with another linux PC to help you out, as it would help if you dont touch at all the hard drive you are wanting to recover - basically unplugging it and putting it into another machine would be a much safer start. I guess you're in windows or something at the moment, go read this: http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/recover/ Im afraid ive never used it, so I dont know how good it is, but if you still havent run either an fsck or mounted that filesystem since rebooting, you do have a reasonable chance. Ewan On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 19:07, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I've reinstalled OpenOffice 1.0 as user "mauede". I chose as directory for OpenOffice "/home/mauede" . The installation started but it stopped soon signalling it caould not find "jave Runtime" . I looked for "java" by "rpm -ql java". I got a long list of modules. The system answer to "which java" was "/usr/lib/jave/bin/java". Having figured aout "java" is installed I decided to quit OpenOffice installation and restart it providing the right path to "java". When I aborted OpenOffice installation it asked me if I wanted the whole directory to be deleted. As i prefer to restart from scratch I answered "yes" and immediately figured out it was deleting my user directory where I do have all my project "/home'mauede". Panicing I pushed the Reset" button on the computer tower. This action cauesed rebooting but ... it actually does not reboot... I can see on the screen that "fsck" failed and the system invokes a repair by running "fsck" manually. I tried and it suggested running "e2fsck". Unluckily this command expects some options and a device name. I do not know what to do ... How can I retrieve my s/w and my own user ??? I'm so desperate .....
Thank you , Maura
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