I won’t say I broke into a cold sweat yesterday when I discovered my
external drive no longer contained any sign of my backups but I was
rather worried.
I used the Yast partitioner to check and found that, instead of about
half-a-dozen partitions, there was only one. Also got a message to say
that /parted/ couldn’t do anything with that partition. When I looked at
what was in the partition, I found it contained the contents of the
12.2-M1 DVD. How that got there, I’ve no idea. I certainly didn’t ask
the installation process to change anything on the disk apart from
mounting the Linux backup partition.
I’ve now remade the partition table and backed up my hard drives again.
Apart from a series of old backups, I’ve also lost a backup of Vista. Oh
calamity!
At least I learnt something from this - remove external drive before
installing a beta system.
On 28/02/12 13:36, caf4926 wrote:
>
> Could be a user error?
> I have not experienced any problems with M1 installs
>
I wouldn’t rule it out but I’ve been installing stuff for years (since
SuSE 7.x) without anything like this happening. Mind you, there’s a
first time for everything and I could have gotten a bit blasé about the
process and made a mistake. Still a bit of a struggle for me to see what
I mistake I could have made to result in such a screw-up and would one
mistake have been enough?
As soon as I posted, I wondered whether the problem could have occurred
during the burn of the DVD though, again, I’m darned if I see how.
For obvious reasons, I’m reluctant to repeat the experiment - unless I
break into my piggy bank and get a second external drive!
–
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.4; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
On 2012-02-28 13:14, Graham P Davis wrote:
> I won’t say I broke into a cold sweat yesterday when I discovered my
> external drive no longer contained any sign of my backups but I was rather
> worried.
I can imagine…
> I used the Yast partitioner to check and found that, instead of about
> half-a-dozen partitions, there was only one. Also got a message to say that
> /parted/ couldn’t do anything with that partition. When I looked at what
> was in the partition, I found it contained the contents of the 12.2-M1 DVD.
> How that got there, I’ve no idea. I certainly didn’t ask the installation
> process to change anything on the disk apart from mounting the Linux backup
> partition.
It looks to me as if something proceeded to make a usb bootable stick with
the DVD image.
> Aside: For those unfamiliar with the best of British tabloid journalism,
> the subject is based on a headline from the Currant Bun -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Starr.
Funny. I have used similar phrases, but I had no idea of the origin.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 29/02/12 01:13, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> I used the Yast partitioner to check and found that, instead of about
>> > half-a-dozen partitions, there was only one. Also got a message to say that
>> > /parted/ couldn’t do anything with that partition. When I looked at what
>> > was in the partition, I found it contained the contents of the 12.2-M1 DVD.
>> > How that got there, I’ve no idea. I certainly didn’t ask the installation
>> > process to change anything on the disk apart from mounting the Linux backup
>> > partition.
>
> It looks to me as if something proceeded to make a usb bootable stick with
> the DVD image.
>
Ah, a penny has dropped! I’d forgotten I’d made one of those due to my
other machine’s DVD drive being out of action. First time I’d attempted
it so it’s likely that I made a mistake somewhere along the line.
One good thing to come out of this is that I’ll have to rethink my
backup policy, either get another drive to back up the backup or use a
remote service. Upload speeds - or lack of - could be a problem with the
latter.
Anyway, thanks to you for providing the answer and to everyone else for
helping.
–
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.4; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
On 2012-02-29 11:39, Graham P Davis wrote:
> On 29/02/12 01:13, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Ah, a penny has dropped! I’d forgotten I’d made one of those due to my
> other machine’s DVD drive being out of action. First time I’d attempted it
> so it’s likely that I made a mistake somewhere along the line.
Next time you do a backup, disconnect the drive when you finish, so that it
is safe from problems.
> Anyway, thanks to you for providing the answer and to everyone else for
> helping.
Welcome
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:16:03 +0000, caf4926 wrote:
> Testdisk might have been able to recover your lost stuff.
Thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately, I needed to try it today as
the partition table has got itself scrambled again. Seems my cure was
only temporary. Tried TestDisk, found a partition that contained the
latest data, chose “write,” rebooted as instructed, looked at partition,
same as before, empty! Sigh!
–
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.4; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
