General :: USB Fedora File Disappearances - (corrupt - Deleted)?
Jul 6, 2010
I created a pendrive USB Fedora OS, worked fine. Installed a few bits and pieces, but when I used it again most of the files have disappeared (corrupt, deleted?). This happened before, just after I put a load of updates on. I am certain it cannot be rescued, but how can I prevent this (apart from backing up)?
I was on Windows and I accidentally deleted my Ubuntu install. Now when I boot I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and it's corrupt. So I went to add remove programs in Windows 7 and it just deleted the Ubuntu uninstaller (cause i deleted it) and now i'm stuck with a corrupt boot, how to remove it because I want to re install Ubuntu and it's annoying having 2 Ubuntu systems (one corrupt) and Windows 7 on my boot screen.
I want to cause damage to a file system and then try to restore it. I want to use a VM first and when I've learned a little try it on an old HDD. Any ways to damage a filesystem non physically is welcome!
basically the situation I'm in is someone mistakenly expanded an NAS without unmounting the drive on the server. This corrupted the superblock and its apparent that all the backups are no good. The drive in question was expanded from about 800gigs to 1.8TBs, its done via an NAS.
At this point I'm most concerned about getting the files off the drive, I can deal with resetting the file system but I really need those files. This happened within a week of me joining this group so I'm kind of doing damage control here, backups were not taken of this particular drive.
I used the ext3 format when I formatted my partition prior to installing Ubuntu10.10. I had accidentally deleted a file and began the process to get it back. It wasn't critical but helpful to recover the file. To make a long story short I ran into to some unexpected road blocks. I tried to use PhotoRec to get the job done but with no success.
I'm just looking down the road in the event I might have to recover something important.If it would be better going back to the Fat32 file system I would rather do it sooner than later. Just as a side note I am dual booting between linux and windows.
I am using fedora 6 and i have delete same file from home partition and i want to remove these deleted file permanently. so, nobody able to recover these file.
Why do I keep getting .gvfs (gnome virtual file system) file appearing as corrupt in /~/usr directory, I can get rid of it by unmounting, but it re-appears later on. It is causing problems as it interrupts my backups (which are automated) with an error message,ListError .gtk-bookmarks/.gvfs [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/jimt/.gvfs'
The man page for rm says Quote:Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it is usually possible to recover the contents of that file. Do you know of a way to recover a file deleted with rm?
In my system i am using fedora13 unfortunately grub loader(partition deleted) file has gone ,now its not booting the system,some one is saying is install again fedora in same place
what i am thinking is: 1)we will use live cd, 2)open terminal(in live command will work or not ,i typed but its asking you should be root) 3)we will take grub source code from net ,then we will compile it in same path(i think in fedora grub.8.gz), then is it working
Say I have a file that's downloading (from a source that's hard to re-download from), but accidentally deleted from the filesystem namespace (/tmp/blah), and I'd like to recover this file. Normally I could just cp /proc/$PID/fd/$FD /tmp/blah, but in this case that would only get me a partial snapshot, since the file is still downloading. Furthermore, once the download completes, the downloading process (e.g. Chrome) will close the FD. Any way to recover by inode/create a hard link? Any other solutions? If it makes any difference, I'm mainly concerned with ext4.
I am using Backtrack 4 Final, which is a Linux distro that is Ubuntu based. I had a directory that contained around 5 files. I deleted one of the files, which sent it to the trash. I then zipped the directory up (now containing 4 files), using this command:
zip -r directory.zip directory/
When I then unzipped directory.zip, the file I deleted was in there again. I couldn't believe this, so I zipped up the directory again, and the file reappeared again but this time could not be opened because the operating system said it didn't exist or something. I don't remember the exact error, and I cannot make this happen again. why a file that was deleted from a directory would reappear in that directory after it was zipped up?
I have deleted menu.lst file by mistake. Now i am afraid to restart my computer as i think This will not get the link for boot the system. Please let me know how can i restart my computer after shut down. Will it be a problem in starting of the system.
I've just tried to open an .odt file which says it's corrupt and cannot be recovered... The last backup I can find is from about a month ago and is 10,000 words shorter than the corrupt version.I have no idea why the file has suddenly become corrupt
I have an Acer Aspire One running NBR 9.10. A few days ago it "went wonky", wouldn't boot and would just seem to start and then shut off before getting to the logon screen. I managed to boot from a USB stick and run check and fix in Gparted. It found a slew of errors in the file system. Unfortunately, it still won't boot, now it just hangs. I assume some of boot files were damaged.
Now I have two problems:
1. Is there a way to repair the damage? Or just wipe the disk and start over?
2. I need to get my e-mail off of the hard drive. I can mount the drive after booting from a USB stick, but the thunderbird directory is locked. Is there a way around this?
Yesterday, the file system of my mp3 player went corrupt. So I tried to format it to vfat, which in the past hasn't solved the problem and instead just made another corrupt partition. I have fixed it before by using dereks boot and nuke (dban) and filling it with only zeros so its ready to be repartitioned.
Now this time I tried to save some time by using dd instead of dban. So I did dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/sdb
The process got interrupted by my system shutting down after about 15 min.
Now when I plug in my usb, it doesn't get recognized. It doesn't show up in gparted or fdisk. I looked at dmesg and all it gave was: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
On my backup drive I can no longer see any files. According to Testdisk program the master file table (MFT) is bad. How do I restore or rebuild the MFT?
Was I the only one having failure issues trying to install any Debian ISO Yesterday?I got big red screens about corrupt files all while trying to install Wheezy and Jessie.All with ISO versions downloaded and burned yesterday, net install. Disc and DVD.Mint and later Fedora installed perfectly well, but I wanted Debian.
Yesterday afternoon, I was playing around with updating my system with RPMs from the openSUSE RPM Search. I had bash v 4.0.18 (I'm running a decaboot, the primary OS being openSUSE 11.2, where the issue is) and I installed a package that was bash 1.0.36. I restarted my Yakuake terminal to see the new bash. Immediately, I noticed the Yakuake terminal flashing rapidly, and the terminal wouldn't go down when I used the key that brings up and down, so I controlled-alt-escaped it and killed it off. Then I wondered if it was just me, so I hit ALT-F2 and logged in as root. It quickly said some symbol file (Something)_(Something)_REWRITE(maybe) then disappeared, giving my the login prompt. I though, well, OK maybe I have to restart it to get it to work. Init said "there is no more processes left on this runlevel" and I had to Power-Button it and reboot. When it rebooted, or tried to, I was greeted with "KERNEL-PANIC Tried to kill init"
I panicked with the kernel, and I went into my 11.3 Milestone 4 installation, tried to chroot it, but I received the same error as when I tried to log into root and was returned to my 11.3 session.
I later tried to do a mock update with the 11.2 DVD, and tried with the YaST package manager to downgrade BASH, but the RPM installation failed, even on good DVDs. I tried the rescue, but it said BASH wasn't a "critical file" while things I don't even use were checked (like openssh)
From 11.3, I tried linking sh from bash to ksh (Korne Shell). For all I know, it is just like bash. It didn't work. Same kernel error.
I relinked sh and bash together, and I am using SUSE 11.1 in the meantime, but does anybody know how to fix this without reinstalling my SUSE 11.2 completely.
I used to have Windows XP Professional on my computer, then I decided to install Ubuntu but it didn't work for me it gave me really weird errors, I thought I uninstalled it, and then I installed Debian on my computer, Debian ran smoothly but when I tried to start Windows the GRUB from ubuntu appeared and when I tried to start windows again it showed and that the hal.dll was missing, I reinstalled Windows but still the same error appeared, this also affected my Debian GRUB so I had to install it again, I don't know what I should do in this case. How can I delete ubuntu's GRUB for good? I've already formatted my windows partition but it keeps using Ubuntu's GRUB.
I am trying to reinstall ubuntu on my asus eee netbook. When I try to open ubuntu an error message appears saying that this file <windowsroot>system32hal.dll.> is corrupt or missing. How to I reinstall this file/what happened?
What is an easy way detect corrupt movie file during or before using ffmpeg to encode them? is there a command I can use to check if the file is not corrupt and then pipe it ffmpeg or standard input?