Thanh-BKK
August 26th, 2009, 09:00 AM
Hello.
I was happily browsing the web when suddenly Swiftfox decided to hang (in fact i just praised Ubuntu on this forum mere minutes earlier). I closed it (it closed normally) and restarted it and upon that restart it acted like it had just installed all the add-ons, i.e. no configuration was saved. During re-configuring those add-ons Swiftfox became extremely sluggish and almost stayed grey all the time. I closed it again (again it closed normally after some time) and tried it again - same.
I then shut down the machine and restarted it - which is when the trouble REALLY started, the disk checker came up and got stuck at 3%, dumping me to a terminal-like screen..... there it said "run fsck manually" so i did, i had no idea the drive needs to be unmounted etc......
End of the story, i did that a few times, at some stage i was able to actually boot and get into my account alright, all files were where they were supposed to be but the icon theme had changed and the system ran extremely sluggish..... further reboots sometimes the computer didn't find either one of the HDD's......
What i could determine is that all corruption seems to be on /dev/sda6 which is my "home" partition (as fsck only complains about that partition).
Now i am still not sure if it is my HDD that just died or the mainboard (or rather the IDE controller, as booting from the CD which is a SATA drive still works fine) so i am going to replace them both.
But i would like to know if there is any way of rescuing my obviously damaged "home" partition..? In case the HDD is still is still ok, that is. Because i REALLY don't want to have to go through a re-install of OS including all the apps (a TON of them!) including all the customizations, configurations etc.
I would highly appreciate any advice on this issue as it effects my production computer.
Kind regards.....
Thanh
I was happily browsing the web when suddenly Swiftfox decided to hang (in fact i just praised Ubuntu on this forum mere minutes earlier). I closed it (it closed normally) and restarted it and upon that restart it acted like it had just installed all the add-ons, i.e. no configuration was saved. During re-configuring those add-ons Swiftfox became extremely sluggish and almost stayed grey all the time. I closed it again (again it closed normally after some time) and tried it again - same.
I then shut down the machine and restarted it - which is when the trouble REALLY started, the disk checker came up and got stuck at 3%, dumping me to a terminal-like screen..... there it said "run fsck manually" so i did, i had no idea the drive needs to be unmounted etc......
End of the story, i did that a few times, at some stage i was able to actually boot and get into my account alright, all files were where they were supposed to be but the icon theme had changed and the system ran extremely sluggish..... further reboots sometimes the computer didn't find either one of the HDD's......
What i could determine is that all corruption seems to be on /dev/sda6 which is my "home" partition (as fsck only complains about that partition).
Now i am still not sure if it is my HDD that just died or the mainboard (or rather the IDE controller, as booting from the CD which is a SATA drive still works fine) so i am going to replace them both.
But i would like to know if there is any way of rescuing my obviously damaged "home" partition..? In case the HDD is still is still ok, that is. Because i REALLY don't want to have to go through a re-install of OS including all the apps (a TON of them!) including all the customizations, configurations etc.
I would highly appreciate any advice on this issue as it effects my production computer.
Kind regards.....
Thanh