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On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:36 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: |
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> No, I don't have a backup. |
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> And I still didn't turn off my laptop. The |
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> problem is how I can recover my system? |
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The first solution I was thinking of would be to back your system up |
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before you reboot, and then re-create the filesystem and restore but, at |
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least for me, mkswap pretty much destroys the filesystem instantly. |
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The second solution would have been to restore from your most recent |
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backup but, as you've said, you don't have one. |
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Hopefully this incident illustrates the importance of having a backup. |
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Beyond that, I don't see much hope for you (beyond re-installing). |
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Likely mkswap has destroyed your filesystem metadata (and data) and |
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There's probably no sane way of recovering from it other than a restore. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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