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I think df is getting thrown by the lack of specified device. If you look with mount, you'll see that the filesystem is definitely tmpfs.
$ df -h | grep run
tmpfs 4.8G 1.4M 4.8G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 12G 4.9M 12G 1% /run/shm
none ...
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This is a tough spot, as you know. I can sympathize with you as I've hosed myself in similar situations like this before. You have some options. The good news is you will probably be able to recover most or all of your data. The bad news is it will take a bit of work.
The first thing I would try is TestDisk. It was made to help recover deleted ...
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I believe, amongst other things, testdisk should work as a tool to recover your data. However, first and foremost - before you do anything else, you need to guard your last copy of the data. Firstly, only mount it read-only from here on. (You can remount it with the option ro, see man mount)
I suggest getting yourself a large (>2TB) disk and copying a ...
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To recover data from an image on an external USB drive here are the steps needed:
Stop using the damaged drive.
Have an external drive(s) ready holding twice the data amount from your damaged drive 's size.
Format with a filesytem able to hold such a large file as will be created from the orginal drive (e.g. ext4)
Boot Ubuntu from a live session ("Try ...
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Lost Partition
If you made a mistake while partitioning and the partition no longer appears in the partition table, so long as you have not written data in that space, all your data is still there.
GNU Parted
Run Parted from the command line to recover your partition.
When changing the partition table on your hard drive, you must ensure that no partition ...
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