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Hi, I had the same problem as you had, and I was also afraid of doing something stupid.
Then I googled some stuff about kernel compiling and tried it out. Miraculously, it actually worked (at least,...

I had a similar problem once, so maybe this will help, if the above suggestion doesn't work:

1. From another computer (or another OS on the same computer) download a linux distribution and burn it...

I thought he was more looking for developer knowledge, not so much how to effectively use Ubuntu which I thought he's already doing.

My advice would be: find books / websites about Operating...

Just a post scriptum, in case anybody experiences the same problem:

It seems TestDisk hadn't been able to recover all the files, my whole music folder seemed to be gone. I was able to solve that...

Thank you very much. I tried testdisk and it appears it worked. At least I can see all my data.

Whoever made that tool has my eternal gratitude. :)

Hello there,

So I was playing around with dd and I did something really stupid. I wanted to write to my USB stick, but I wrote to my external hard disk instead.
This is very unfortunate!
My...

I AM THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD!

Everything is as it was before. (So now of COURSE I will backup all my data!!)

For anyone interested.
The problem, as I got from another thread here in the...

Thank you both.
I turned the swap off, but that doesnt seem to be of any help atm.

Neither did:

sudo fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda5I just get the same "device or resource busy" error as always :/
...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dumpe2fs /dev/sda5 | grep -i backup
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal backup: inode blocks
Backup Superblock in 32768, Gruppendeskriptoren in 32769-32772
...

Hi,

I hate to admit it, but I'm quite stupid when it comes to such things, so I do not really understand what I'm supposed to do, and how.
Could you please clarify your advice for me? Or direct...

Thanks for the tip on shutting down, I didnt know that!

"vol_id" doesnt seem to work, I get a "command not found" error.
I did a quick google and it appears it might have been replaced by blkid?...

I dont want to seem impatient, but I really need help here!

No, this wouldn't help, I think, since the system is almost completely shut down .. there is just the black screen and the Ubuntu icon.
I just press the Power Button for about 5 seconds.

Thanks for the help.


Unfortunately, both times I just get:
"e2fsck: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda5
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?"

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Hello everybody,
I would be very glad if someone could help me with this problem.
I've searched the internet all over, but somehow I didn't find a solution (I REALLY hope there is one :/). Of...