[hllug] Re: Up the creek

  • From: admin <admin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:24:00 -0600

Don't see anything wrong with the filesystem or the permissions. Must be 
something else wrong. What the error reported? As much detail as possible.




Sent from my Samsung Galaxy™ S II 4Ghc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:herb@herb-elfa:~$ sudo 
mount -t ext4 /dev/sda8 /mnt/tmp
[sudo] password for herb: 
herb@herb-elfa:~$ ls -l /home
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 40 herb herb 4096 2012-12-28 04:51 herb
herb@herb-elfa:~$ 


 
On Friday, December 28, 2012 08:30, "Lee Parmeter" <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Check permissions on your home dir using: 
"ls -l /home"

hc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Sorry Lee I got the partitions mixed
here is the command
herb@herb-elfa:~$ sudo fsck -fn /dev/sda8
[sudo] password for herb: 
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda8: 302011/8601600 files (0.3% non-contiguous), 4463838/34381824 blocks
herb@herb-elfa:~$ 
herb@herb-elfa:~$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda8 /mnt/tmp
herb@herb-elfa:~$ ls -l /home/herb
total 156
-rw-r--r--  1 herb herb    82 2012-07-12 14:55 =
drwxr-xr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-09-16 15:38 120916Abox1104
-rw-rw-r--  1 herb herb 12922 2011-02-13 00:53 a670.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 herb herb  7994 2012-08-03 14:11 apache2.conf
drwxr-xr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-06-17 16:08 Audiobooks
-rw-r--r--  1 herb herb 18965 2012-09-23 10:41 DayNotes120822.txt
drwxr-xr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-09-13 07:22 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-09-12 17:17 Docs
drwxr-xr-x  3 herb herb  4096 2012-09-21 12:29 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  3 herb herb  4096 2012-09-21 14:18 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-08-30 21:22 dwhelper
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root  4096 2012-08-28 23:41 gnash
-rw-r--r--  1 herb herb 24248 2012-08-17 19:32 LsComands.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 herb herb  1027 2012-09-24 17:47 MintNotes1209
drwxr-xr-x  6 herb herb  4096 2012-09-22 20:11 Music
-rw-r--r--  1 herb herb  1741 2012-09-12 00:19 ~OilNotes2012.txt
drwxr-xr-x  5 herb herb  4096 2012-09-10 20:04 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-06-17 16:08 Podcasts
-rw-r--r--  1 herb herb  9749 2012-12-27 07:38 ~Stuff.txt
drwxr-xr-x  4 herb herb  4096 2012-09-16 15:38 Temp
drwxr-xr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-09-21 14:18 Temp2
drwxrwxr-x  2 herb herb  4096 2012-06-14 20:46 Ubuntu One
drw-r--r--  6 herb herb  4096 2012-12-26 22:57 Videos
drwxr-xr-x  6 herb herb  4096 2012-09-11 20:02 wordpress
herb@herb-elfa:~$
Hmmmm so the files are there now what?
 
thanksLee
hh
 
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 09:17, "Lee Parmeter" <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Herb:

boot from other partition or a live CD and then mount the problem partition 
that contains your home directory.

You can use "fdisk -l" to see other mountable partitions after you are booted 
in Linux.

Before you mount the partition, check it using -n (no fix) with: (replace ?? 
with your drive's notation, ie sdb5)

fsck -fn /dev/sd??

If problem reported:

Either use this to fix: (with your ack at every step)

fsck -fv /dev/sd??

Or use this to fix automatically:

fsck -fpv /dev/sd??

To mount:

1. create tmp directory under /mnt on your running Linux

sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp

2. determine file system type (ext3, ext4) of the partition you want to mount.

parted -l

3. mount the partition

mount -t ext3 /dev/sd?? /mnt/tmp

4. Now you can run "ls -l /home/herb"

-Lee



On 12/27/2012 08:13 AM, hc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
sorry I cannot boot into that partition so I do not know how to run ls on it?? 
I can only boot into a diff partition on same drive, please tell me how
hh
 
 
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 08:08, "admin" <admin@xxxxxxxxx> said:

What does "ls -l /home/herb" show?
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy™ S II 4G

hc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well I yayed 2 soon. .. I cannot boot because it says it cannot find a 
/home/herb folder well running in the other pat I can see the sda8 part with 
/home & /herb there but when I attempt to open it with filemanager it says it 
is not a folder?
 
I looked in property’s>permissions it says permissions cannot be determined but 
gives this as location .. /media/a724d786-cc12-4d7a-8c67-e75cadfbb9cc/home/herb
 
I hope there is a way to fix this without losing all the files in there I am 
backed up except for maybe past week so won't kill me
thanks hh
 
 

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