--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Sudhir Gandotra <[email protected]> wrote:
> A harddisk on the laptop asked for fsck which was done.
> The process took quiet some time and at the end of it, it
> linked all
> the data to the lost+found directory and also the ext3
> journal info of
> the partition was changed by the FSCK process to ext2.
> Now, all the folders and files are gone and they seem to be
> in the
> lost+found directory and all the folders and files names
> have bene
> changed to numerical.
>
> the command tune2fs also did not help.
>
> How to recover the folders and files from the lost+found
> directory ?
>
>From my experience I found following
a.If the numerical name is a directory, just cd to it.
b.Do an ls, you can guess original name from this.
c.You can use grep to search and guess the original file name
d.Use commands strings, file, find to guess and
try to restore to original name
Raman.P
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