Hello, On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Sudhir Gandotra wrote: > A harddisk on the laptop asked for fsck which was done.
It seems as if the wrong fsck was run or the system was erroneously configured. > 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. > How to recover the folders and files from the lost+found directory ? These are _all_ the files which are recoverable but the process of recovery will be painful because you need to identify each file. > The help will be great for an NGO whose important data is in the disk. Restore from your last good backup. (You did take a backup did you not?) Then look at each file in the lost+found directory to identify those that are useful to you. Here are some tricks to speed up that process: a. Ask your users to try to remember any important work that they did _after_ your last backup. This will allow you to narrow down the files you are looking for. b. Use the "file" command to figure out which files have which type. Then categoriese the files according to type. c. Use the "grep" command to search for particular strings in the document files which will help you categorise further. d. After that you will have no option but to actually view the files using a suitable viewer and see if that particular file is worth saving. Regards, Kapil. P.S. Perhaps someone here knows how to use "beagle" or "xapian" to simplify (b) and (c). P.P.S. "The first time you lose data is usually the last time that you forget to take a backup." -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
