Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

[Michael Chesterton <chesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/07/2009, at 2:42 AM, Geoffrey Cowling wrote:

> This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what
> to do about it would be very welcome.
>
> I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a
> lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x ... everything froze,
> and when I goto ut (it rebooted) there was only a Error 15: File not
> found.  This was Ubuntu 8.04

Were you addicted to root, the superuser? It's a common phenomena
for new users to get addicted to the power of root and do everything
as root. I know I did. That was before SUA, Super User Anonymous.
Now I do everything as an ordinary user, and sudo when I need.

I would try and find your root partition by mounting all /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb3 etc etc.

But at least you've got home, and on a separate partition, worse comes
to worse you might have to reinstall leaving /home intact.

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