Thread: [HELP] N900 totally screwed
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2013-09-06 , 10:57
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/home is eMMC I'm afraid.

I don't think Ubuntu believes in sudo. There should be a shortcut for something like "root terminal", but I can't tell you where since I ditched Ubuntu in 2012 when they switched to Unity. You will need to find it yourself.

If you are adventurous, try this on your N900:
Code:
sudo gainroot
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p2 of=/media/mmc1/home.img
That's assuming you have an SD card inserted, of course. It is preferable to copy to an SD card to reduce writing to eMMC to a minimum. If you don't have an SD card, replace /media/mmc1 with /home/MyDocs.

Next, copy home.img (it should be 2GB in size) to your Linux computer and run in a root terminal:
Code:
fsck -t ext3 -afy home.img
 

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