Lost my old data?

[JEO]

Each time you delete a logical partition and create a new one using the same physical space I think it just marks the old one as deleted, and creates a new entry in the table. Since all of those partitions are all the same size, volume label, and roughly the same location it is just saying that it can't recover data from those old deleted ones, it can only recover data from just the current one that uses that same physical area of the disk.

[josephibots]

Originally Posted by JEO

Each time you delete a logical partition and create a new one using the same physical space I think it just marks the old one as deleted, and creates a new entry in the table. Since all of those partitions are all the same size, volume label, and roughly the same location it is just saying that it can't recover data from those old deleted ones, it can only recover data from just the current one that uses that same physical area of the disk.

Hello JEO
Still my issue has not been resolved the /home folder is still empty but,it has created home/home/home and the last home is empty ... so no way to retrieve the data..?

[sidebrnz]

Have you corrected the issue I pointed out where you had the same partition mounted in two places in fstab? if not, why not?

[josephibots]

Originally Posted by sidebrnz

Have you corrected the issue I pointed out where you had the same partition mounted in two places in fstab? if not, why not?

yes i have changed the name but not in fstab as only label are given there and my old /home is located at /dev/sda2 so no idea i don't know more ..please guide ..

[JEO]

It should be able to retrieve individual files and maybe some directories, as long as they weren't overwritten. You probably will not end up with your /home directory exactly the way you had it. Isn't there an option to do a deep scan or something?

[josephibots]

Originally Posted by JEO

It should be able to retrieve individual files and maybe some directories, as long as they weren't overwritten. You probably will not end up with your /home directory exactly the way you had it. Isn't there an option to do a deep scan or something?

Yeah ..done deep scan only and then got message that some files are not recoverable.Also to tell you day before yesterday i tried e2fsck on /dev/sda2 and has shown many orphaned and some inode entries and then asked me to delete some and i did it..i am now bit skeptical that some files entries might be delted from teh table ..does e2fsk does that or it only deletes unwanted entries any Idea..?

[JEO]

Hard to say whether that is normal or not to have orphaned inodes and such. I would say it would be normal if you were having crashing/freezing problems and couldn't shut down the system properly. In any event, testdisk is not the only free data recovery software ask in the forum or Google around and find some others to try.

[sidebrnz]

You have /dev/sd2 listed twice in fstab. Comment out the one that doesn't mount it at /home, reboot and see what happens.