I made a bad mistake .  I mounted a partition as home folder based on this post     and I'v lost all of my files in my preivous home folder . is there any way to recover them ?
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Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?  If it makes any difference, I want to recover a  2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file.
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There are many questions on automatically mounting or problems encountered during mounting that I've read here. But none on how to manually mount a partition.
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Possible Duplicates:             I thought that all operating systems would merge folder content when being moved to the same location. Imagine my surprise when that didn't happen and I have hundreds, if not thousands of files that have gone missing and are nowhere to be found.  Because they were not "deleted" they are not in the trash bin.  I've tried to do some recovery using a program called stellarPheonix but after about a 24hour scan, it didn't recognize any of the raw files (.dng,.arw) as image files and so I couldn't see if they could be recovered. It also didn't show the directory structure, which would be handy.  I tried a quick scan, but all it showed was files that were still on the HD, not sure what the point of that is.  I've used recover 2000 on Win and it does a good job, does anyone know of anything that works quickly and reliably for this kind of file recovery. (I don't think I should have to do a sector-by=sector for this kind of file loss)
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I think my Ubuntu is a bit broken from messing around with it.  Unfortunately during installation, I did not make a separate partition for /home. Now I need to re-install but want to keep my music and films.  Any ideas...
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When I reinstall Windows XP by mistake I deleted all five partitions. I did not format them yet though.  How can I recover the partitions? When I attach the hard disk to another PC it just says that the partition is unformated and asks "Would you like to format it?".
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I have a NAS (mybook world white light) in my living room where all my music and stuff is stored. I've mounted the music folder of the nas in the local music folder of my home directory on my desktop computer.  My fstab entry looks like this:  //192.168.2.222/Public/Shared\040Music/ /home/simon/Musik/ cifs credentials=/home/simon/.smbcredentials,defaults 0 0   A few minutes ago, I moved my home directory on my local desktop computer with the help of .  At first everything looks great, but then I realised that my music folder was empty. I think I deleted everything in this step during the tutorial:  umount /home rm -rf /home/*    Because the music folder was still mounted to /home/simon/Musik :/  Is there a possibility to recover something of the data? As I realized what happened, I shut down the NAS.
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How can I find the files that were stored on my flash drive before I installed Ubuntu to it?   Edit: No, I didn't format it, my files are still on the flash drive root. I just need to know how to access them there.
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Several files in my home directory have been disappearing. E.g. .bashrc, .bash_profile, authorized_keys and now .profile.  Regardless of how this happened, I would like to restore the original pristine .profile file. If I create a new user on my system one is created. Where can I find this .profile contents from a fresh, untouched install?
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I was installing ubuntu 12.04 on my system. There were 4 partitions on my system and I selected one of the four partition for the installation and chose the option of resizing the partition. Initially my partition was of size 100+GB and i created another partition out of it of size 15GB (EXT4). Now the moment I changed this partition structure my original partition got lost along with its data and I am left with 50GB partition and 50GB unallocated free space.   Now the data that I have lost is meant a lot to me and I want to recover that data. So is there any way I can recover it? And I haven't checked "format" option while resizing the partition.
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I just move my /home and /tmp to another partition and after that I cannot call the commands ll or ls -l without crashing the console. anything wrong? thank you
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My /usr folder needs to get moved to a new partition. How can I do this without erasing the contents?  Can this be done while Ubuntu is running, or do I need to use the LiveCD for this?
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My technophobe mother returned from a European trip to discover she'd erased all but 15 images from a nearly full 2GB card. As I am the computer guy in the family, she posted the card to me and asked that I make something magical happen.  The photos were taken with and deleted by a Nikon Coolpix. (I don't know the model.)  I am a Linux guy, but there is a Windows Vista box at my disposal.  What is my best strategy to try to recover something?
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I had a 20GB / partition at work that dual-booted with Windows and it quickly ran out of space. I usually do 20GB / and 160GB (or whatever the rest of the hard drive is) as /home, so I intended on recovering the space Windows was taking up and turning that into /home.  That went fine and I was able to mount the partition and rsync all my files over.  However, I forgot that the partition was encrypted, so now all my files are sitting in /home/.ecrypt and /home/$USER is empty.  How can I recover my files from /home/.ecrypt and move them to /home/$USER?  I followed this tutorial:
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A few nights ago I have created a backup of my data on an external 500 GB NTFS USB hard drive.  I have then formatted my computer, reinstalled Ubuntu and started transferring back the data from the external HDD.  Unfortunately some files have became corrupted and Ubuntu is unable to copy them over. The same issue happens if I login using Windows 7.  Disk Utility detects with SMART that there are "a few bad sectors".  Some of files are perfectly intact, but other files cannot be accessed (nor read, copied...) although they are displayed within nautilus and show the correct file size.  Is there anything I can do to recover this data? I have thought of using TestDisk but this utility seems more useful for repairing lost partitions or deleted files.  I have also thought of using ddrescue so I could at least have a low level copy of the disk but I am not sure what use to make of it in order to recover the data!!!
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I'm new to how Ubuntu works and installed it yesterday alongside Windows 7, but in doing so I have created a few problems. I have partitions for Windows, Ubuntu, System Recovery, and storage for all my files with the intention to access them on either OS, but I don't even see all of my drives listed on Home Folder. Not to mention that  during the Ubuntu instillation I managed to screw up any chance of booting to the Windows side of things at all. I'll fix Windows once I get my hands on a copy in a couple days, but in the mean time any suggestions for accessing my files?  If you need me to find any data about my computer to help you figure out what's wrong with it, please don't hesitate to tell me what I need to show you. Thanks
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I was trying to resize my EXT4 partition and something went wrong. I lost it. The space in once consumed is now being represented as Unallocated. How do I recover the partition?
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I know that most files, when deleted, aren't actually removed from the disk, and can be recovered later.  How can I ensure that a directory I had deleted will actually be removed from the disk? Are there utilities for that?  I'm using Debian Linux.