On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 08:37:31PM +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> My hard disk seems to be corrupted, and my machine cannot boot.
> However, it can enter into emergency mode.
>
> I would like to mount my home directory and also an external disk to
> do all necessary backups. How can I accomplish that?
Please, ignore my question -- I am now doing the backups with the live CD.
Well, if your hard disk is failing whatever backup you do might just be
useless. After all backups are done *before* things fail :-p.
I would suggest you try data recovery. For hints you can look here:
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/377478/match=s...
GL,
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