[TriLUG] Data vanished from a partition?

[Roger Broseus via TriLUG]

Can you see the partition with gparted?

Recovery: try running knoppix and look for the partition. Mount the partition and recover the files, copying them to the new "home" or an external drive.

On August 9, 2015 12:48:06 AM GMT-02:30, Tom Bryan via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>I'm hoping that someone has some suggestions because my search fu has
>utterly failed me on this one.
>
>My wife's laptop runs KUbuntu 14.04.  When she rebooted and logged in
>earlier this week, none of her files were there.  At first, I just
>assumed that the home partition, /dev/sda7, simply wasn't mounted.  I
>found that the partition *was* mounted, but it was apparently empty.
>It still has a filesystem on it.  Since she has an account on the box,
>KDE helpfully created a new home directory with the normal default
>files and folders when she logged in.  And those files persisted just
>fine.
>
>I haven't been able to find any big errors in the logs or anything.
>It's like someone did a /bin/rm -rf /home/*.  So, I now have a
>partition that looks like a normal ext-4 partition.  It no longer has
>any of the files that it had last week.  It also has the new skeleton
>of a home directory that KDE just created.
>
>I've seen hard drives get flaky and start to lose data or fail to
>mount.  But I've never seen anything like this.  Basically, everything
>was there when she shut down.  When she started the machine up an hour
>later, it was all gone.
>
>And, of course, I did something that broke automated back ups months
>ago.  I'm really hoping that someone has some suggestions here.  :-(
>Has anyone ever seen anything like this?  Other than running fsck on
>the partition from a LiveCD, does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>---Tom
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