On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sudhir Gandotra<[email protected]> wrote: > Dear List, > > 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 been > changed to numerical.
Oops. > > the command tune2fs also did not help. > > How to recover the folders and files from the lost+found directory ? > > The help will be great for an NGO whose important data is in the disk. I've come across such a case once before,and it's very difficult and time consuming to recover data. The file hierarchy will be preserved,that is,if you can identify(on some basis,usually the sub-directories and/or files have their filenames left intact) a particular directory as /etc/rc*.d,you are sure the parent directory is /etc. If possible,recover the data,and reinstall the OS.Of course,this assumes,time IS an object. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
