On Tue, 2023-09-05 at 14:16 -0400, John Holland wrote: > So this gave me the list of the files with what they seem to be in > groups. I think a lot of them are browser cache, jpegs, pngs....I > looked > at some of the gzipped ones and they were web pages and css files. > > There are some that don't make sense, for instance #16251989 is > listed > as "ISO Media " and contains binary data and then some HTML.
So: great surprise, most of these lost+found files are browser cache stuff, which was created just before the big crash. This is the kind of stuff which hasn't been written to disk yet. It's extremely unlikely, that you'll find a file in lost+found, which you haven't touched in jours/days before the crash. I would suggest, you ignore this lost+found directory for now, and only if you can't find some important data you can search this directory based on strings which should be in the missing file. Maybe that's, why OpenBSD never cared about a journaling FS ...
