I think I just lost my laptop's home volume... And I don't have a recent backup 😖

I'm currently cloning what's left of the drive

You lost it, like... you dropped it somewhere on your way to work?

every learns it the hard way...

I've been unfathomably lucky with my drives so far. I've got SSDs that are still kicking after a good 7 years of use, several OS overwrites on it each year. I would've guessed the chips would have given the ghost by now, but nope.

Knocking on wood though, I'll jinx myself in no time with this kind of thought process.

@kamen

I tried installing Linux server anti-virus software. After it successfully installed, the computer froze. No single terminal session responded after login. So I rebooted forcefully

After reboot the same thing happened. Some process blocked all other processes.

And after yet another reboot it didn't boot. Swap and root partition was corrupted and I didn't find home partition (LVM).

I'll just have to hope that it wasn't malware.......

What software were you installing?

@NotWhoIUsedToBe
F-Secure Linux Security
https://f-secure.com/en/business/...

@joas thank you

So, I didn't loose anything. I didn't just know that the home folder wasn't a partition in LVM, but a .Private eCryptFS folder instead. It was a pain to manually decrypt and mount, but I got the files back in the end.

The AV-software installed itself to kernel and somehow managed to corrupt initrd and remove base binaries from PATH.