On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Easwar Hariharan<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
The data in this partition is their files and folders. The partition with the system files remained intact. so, these won't be /etc, or /var etc folders. The whole things has been now backed-up (too late) on a separate disk and everything is in the folder lost+found. -- Sudhir Gandotra Best Indian Linux for 2008 - www.OpenLX.com Humanising Technology - Transforming Lives -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
