New User - Two Issues that be prevented

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Sameem,

Sorry to hear your first experience with Ubuntu wasn't as good as it should
have been. Your first concern is already a known within Ubuntu's bug
tracking system (https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/549195).

Also, this is the mailing list for people working on reported bugs in
Ubuntu, and thus isn't a great forum for requesting support. You should head
on over to http://askubuntu.com/ or http://ubuntuforums.org/ and post your
support requests there.

As for the second, data recover is quite a pain, but not impossible. When
you delete a file from your hard drive, the file itself doesn't actually get
deleted, just the header that identifies it as a file, called an inode. This
is because there would be a massive performance degradation if the OS had to
stop to overwrite the 700MB disk image you no longer need. You can
potentially recover files using special tools, information on which can be
found in this Ubuntu wiki article (
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery).

If I interpreted your problem correctly though, then I fear it may already
be too late for your data. The swap partition will constantly be writing
data to the disk when it's in use, increasing the likelihood that your files
will be overwritten, at least when it's in use. If you are using the Ubuntu
installation for which the swap was created then there's a very high
probability that your data is gone. If not, then follow the guidelines in
the data recovery article above.

Good luck,
Chris

On 7 February 2011 14:59, Sameem M <canmind at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> I am new to Ubuntu and I am very excited to learn more about it. I just
> finished installing it along side my Win7 OS but I am also frustrated
> with small issues.
>
> Unfortunately, I had two issues that I think could have been easily
> prevented.
>
>      * User name must be in lower case only (a simple reminder above
>        the field would been great help) as I was not able to go forward
>        with installation and had no idea why until I did some online
>        digging.
>      * The swap area selection. There was no any warning that any files
>        on that partition will be erased!) I lost my documents after I
>        used it  as a swap area (I thought it will be used as memory
>        dump area or something) had no idea it will erase everything....
>        If there is away for me to get my files back your help would be
>        very very appreciated. I lost over 1000 pictures and
>        documents :(
>
> Thank you for reading.
>
> Hope these suggestions would be of some help.
>
> Regards,
> Sameem
>
>
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