On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Smruti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haven't tried it before, but found this over the internet. So posting it. > > http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2004-November/005866.html > > Hope it helps. >
Yeah it helped, specially file and strings commands. Thanks a lot. after transferring a lot of linux ISOs from my NTFS partitions to my home > partition on ext3 file system (both types of FSs on same harddisk) and > restarting my Ubuntu 8.04.1 system, I received an error saying that I have > to run "fsck" manually in the maintenance mode as my root partition > encountered some problems in the automatic (routine) file system check. I > ran it and answered yes (the default option) to all questions. > > After the check, I logged into the system and was shocked to see that the > ISOs I just transferred were not there in the home directory. There were > some other problems such as all my bookmarks (in Places) were gone and I > also received an error saying that TomBoy couldn't load. > Does anybody know why this problem occurs? Have my hard disk become corrupted or some other physical fault or is it just in software? The lost+found folder doesn't contain all files that I lost. Is there any way to recover those files? -- Kartik http://www.techglider.com/blog (The TechGlider Blog) http://forums.techglider.com (The TechGlider Forums) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
