Killed /home during install of another distro

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Monday 30 July 2007 06:56:54 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2007, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> > > In Ubuntu I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides
> > > on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not knowing what to do, and with
> > > no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all
> > > fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty.
>
> My first reaction to this is that you are looking at the 'mount point'
> for /home but nothing has been mounted.
>
> Issue the 'mount' command all by itself and see if there is anything
> mounted at /home

Bruce is right,
And hopefully it's only a mounting problem. If it does, you can try to mount 
it manually first, as long as you remember the partition (sda1, sda2, or 
etc..). Mount /dev/sda2 /home. If it is, you will find all of your files 
again in /home.
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