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trying to restore ... virtualbox won't come up (I was in virtualbox when |
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my window manager lost mouse coordination and I hat to "reboot"). |
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I see that many of the files in /lost+found have virtualbox strings in |
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them. Anybody have an idea how to get them back to their proper places? |
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On 11/04/19 20:47, n952162 wrote: |
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> I had a power-loss situation and when the system came up I went into the |
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> grub rescue screen - my root file system was trashed. I fsck-ed that |
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> and had a ton of prompts until I did the "all" answer. I guess it can |
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> happen, every once in a while - even with a journaling filesystem - I |
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> guess. |
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> I was able to bring up the system but then discovered that my home |
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> filesystem was also trashed, hundreds of files in lost+found and many |
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> gone forever. |
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> Both filesystems ext4. |
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> What gives? Should I have quick gone out and bought a lottery ticket, |
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> or is journalling just hype? |
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