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have i erased my data in hard drives by mistake?

Asked by sireesha inturi

i have previously installed ubuntu 10.04 LTS along with ubuntu. XP crashed, and i have been using ubuntu since then, i have decided to install ubuntu as my only OS. I inserted the CD, and gave the option to install it as the only OS. and i think i gave the option of using 100% hard drive space. so after it installed, i checked the computer folder, and found none of the partitions, i had before. i cant seem to find it anywhere.when i opened it, i found file system with folders like bin. have i erased my data? all of it? or is it somewhere i havent looked?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; df -h

Thanks

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Nick Demou (ndemou) said : 		#2

if you did select the option to use 100% of hard drive space then you did erase your data - all of them.

the command
   df -h
that actionparsnip suggested will display how much space is used in your disk

you may also give as the output of
   du -h --max-depth=1 /home
to see if there is anything left

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sireesha inturi (inturi-sireesha) said : 		#3

it gave me
30M /home/sireesha
30M /home

so what does it mean?

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sireesha inturi (inturi-sireesha) said : 		#4

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; df -h

i got this:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 227G 2.2G 213G 2% /
none 489M 292K 488M 1% /dev
none 493M 196K 493M 1% /dev/shm
none 493M 92K 493M 1% /var/run
none 493M 0 493M 0% /var/lock
none 493M 0 493M 0% /lib/init/rw

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Best Nick Demou (ndemou) said : 		#5

> it [du -h --max-depth=1 /home] gave me
> 30M /home/sireesha
> 30M /home
>
> so what does it mean?

it means that you have only 30M of user data and that all of them are in your one and only home folder of user sireesha

Sorry sireesha but you've probably lost everything :(

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sireesha inturi (inturi-sireesha) said : 		#6

Thanks Nick Demou, that solved my question.