Recovering the 250 Gig Hard Drive...

[alfred]

On 15/06/2010 10:30 PM, Victor Mendonça wrote:
> Alfred,
>
> I would strongly advise you to look for help from a local Linux group or store to avoid loosing any data that might be left on your machine. If you are close to Mississauga there's a caffé/shop that holds a free support service once a month (http://caffenix.com/support/free-computer-makeover). Otherwise any local LUG should be more than happy to help you.
>
> To answer you question without getting into much details, you should be able to change the permissions on that temp directory (with 'chown') from the live CD. I would advise in not deleting the folder or contents and trying to figure out what they have inside.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Victor Mendonça
> http://wazem.org/
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: alfred<alfred.s at nexicom.net>
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 10:20:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Recovering the 250 Gig Hard Drive...
>
> On 14/06/2010 8:56 PM, Eric wrote:
>> I should mention that there are risks inherent in keeping the apps,
>> given one or more of them may have caused the problem in the first place
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Eric<1ballistic1 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:1ballistic1 at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>
>>      Alfred,
>>
>>      If I were in your particular place (high-speed internet being a
>>      problem), I'd be inclined to find out if there's a way to backup the
>>      apps you've installed...Preferably to get the apt-get package
>>      itself, rather than anything after unpacking.
>>
>>      (To the list in general: Apt-get must keep a cache somewhere?)
>>
>>
>>      Eric
>>
>>
>>      On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:08 PM, alfred<alfred.s at nexicom.net
>>      <mailto:alfred.s at nexicom.net>>  wrote:
>>
>>          Hi:
>>
>>          I have a few Ubuntu DVD's from Linux Format Magazine, the 32 bit
>>          version
>>          of 10.04, and on the Flip side pretty near all the other 10.04
>>          32 bit
>>          versions. I don't know how good it is or what problems it has, would
>>          this do, for recovering the Hard drive, say using the Ubuntu 32 bit
>>          version of 10.04. If so I have a bit of time tomorrow, to get my
>>          Linux
>>          Box 2 running, and Boot up from the live version of that DVD.
>>
>>          What do I do, just access the drive and see what my home folder
>>          has in
>>          it. and then burn a DVD or two to make a copy of it, for putting
>>          into
>>          10.04. It was 9.04.
>>
>>          I think I've done this before, on some earlier version where the
>>          same
>>          sort of thing happened, there was a cryptic Message with some of
>>          those
>>          earlier versions, at about the end of their life span. See if
>>          the Home
>>          Folder still exists. What other things would I need to recover?
>>
>>          Alfred!
>>
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>>
> I had a look at my Linux Box Hard drive today. In the Home Folder my
> Desktop, and home folder files are still intact. In the home folder
> there are 3 TMP files that I don't have permission to remove, and there
> is 1.6 Gigs of space left on the hard drive. I tried to remove the TMP
> files, but could not. The Mother board is a Asus Sata MOBO, It had one
> ide Port, and 8 Sata Ports. I'd probably need to add a hard drive, to
> have some space. To Copy over about 50 Gigs of Files. With the 1.6 Gigs
> left, that could take a very long time. The Drive is called 240 GB
> Filessystem, but is probably sda, as there are no other hard drives at
> the moment. Using a live edition 32 bit Ubuntu Install disc, I'm a
> little confused as to what password to use for sudo. To try to get the
> permission to remove the tmp files that are taking up all but 1.6 Gigs
> of my hard drive.
>
> It was not a Death Threat that I made, but a Warning. Being seen as a
> Nerd, means on an almost regular basis, every few months, People try to
> Kill me, and turn things upside down for me, and when they do it with
> me, often, not always, it is the last time they get to do it, even if
> the Authorities can't find the person, or who dun-it. Very bad things
> happen that I made no effort to try to make happen. So I know it was out
> of place, but I just made this new Linux Box, and it was working real
> good in January, but now all my Linux installations on three Computers
> are not working. I'm hoping that my Linux Box Falls into the Upholstery
> Machine, and is fully Recovered. :) It would save a whole bunch of work
> trying to piece it all back together!
>
> Alfred!
>
>
Hi: I live on a hundred mile radius towards the north from Mississauga. 
We tried to start a LUG here, but the Linux Expert, had a heart problem, 
and had to move away to a town where he could be near to a hospital. All 
that is left are 2 or three  old guys like me! No lugs anywhere near 
here. A sign on the road might say somewhere close to Mississauga, last 
lug for 200 miles! :) All my Linux Experiments, were done as though I 
was the only one making use of Linux out there. I got this one person 
interested that found out that "Surprise! You don't have any Pension!" 
So he sells old computers now with Linux and other OS on them so he can 
pay the groceries, and the rent. But he does not know Shell stuff at all!

I had a 64 gig Thumb Drive, Perhaps I could use that. Use the Password 
from that hard drive, 9.04 edition, for Sudo. Then pack the Whole Home 
folder into the thumb drive. I have a Linux Cheat Sheet here somewhere 
with all the Shell Commands on it, might help with formulating the 
commands needed in terminal to do that! Landscape may be in England, I 
don't want to send my almost new Sata drive to Landscape land!

Alfred!