Fedora 17 Crashed big Time, I installed Fedora for a friend and Three
days later it Crashed.


Ai Boot startup it would Stop at Rescue Grub. After further
investigation I found that label for / and /home Partitions had neen
changedf to "UNKNOWN" .


I'm very concern about the /home partition that has some very important
data that needs to be retrieved .


I always setup my Fedora Boxes with a / /home swap , three
partitions , that way I can do a next version of fedora fresh install
on / and Users data will be left untouched by not Formatting the /home
partition.


THE BIG QUESTION HERE IS, Can i do a fresh install by puting the labels
back to / and /home from "UNKNOWN" and Save the Users Data in
/home Or can I assume that the Users Data is LOST !!


My friend say the Data Has got to be SAVED. If I can't do it he will
have to take the hard drive out to someone that can. I have talk him
into using a /Backup hard drive on his new computer


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On 07/02/2012 11:05 AM, Jim wrote:


THE BIG QUESTION HERE IS, Can i do a fresh install by puting the labels
back to / and /home from "UNKNOWN" and Save the Users Data in
/home Or can I assume that the Users Data is LOST !!


Calm down. All is not lost. Boot from a LiveCD, find out what the UUID
is for each partition and edit /etc/fstab to match. This should allow
you to boot again with your current installation. If that doesn't work,
let us know and we'll go from there.

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On 02.07.2012, Jim wrote:

> I'm very concern about the /home partition that has some very important data
> that needs to be retrieved .
[....]

> My friend say the Data Has got to be SAVED. If I can't do it he will have
> to take the hard drive out to someone that can. I have talk him into using
> a /Backup hard drive on his new computer

Very important data should always be stored on a
backup-medium. Always. If your friend didn't, he/she will learn it
"the hard way", unfortunately. No hardware/software is "for shure",
it's purely a matter of how important the data really are.

I would strongly advise you to stop all rescueing immediately, buy
another harddisk which is capable storing what's important, and
mirror that completely. If the data is readable, you can do that
e.g. using rsync: "rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target". In all other
cases, "dd if=source of=target" will do it.

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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:05:25 -0400, Jim wrote:

> Fedora 17 Crashed big Time, I installed Fedora for a friend and Three
> days later it Crashed.
>
> Ai Boot startup it would Stop at Rescue Grub. After further
> investigation I found that label for / and /home Partitions had neen
> changedf to "UNKNOWN" .

That's not much information, unfortunately. What "label" do you refer to?
F17 by default does not use labels for mounting, but UUIDs.

> I'm very concern about the /home partition that has some very important
> data that needs to be retrieved .

Access to a partition is independent of any label.

> I always setup my Fedora Boxes with a / /home swap , three
> partitions , that way I can do a next version of fedora fresh install
> on / and Users data will be left untouched by not Formatting the /home
> partition.
>
> THE BIG QUESTION HERE IS, Can i do a fresh install by puting the labels
> back to / and /home from "UNKNOWN" and Save the Users Data in
> /home Or can I assume that the Users Data is LOST !!

One thing for certain, if you can still identify the partitions by their
device name, volume name, or UUID, you can reinstall and reuse the old
/home, *provided that* you just reuse it and don't format it during
installation.

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