That's ok, I've never seen lost and found actually have anything in it before
and wondered. I'd still try running it again at least on your' home partition
to see if it recovers anything. FYI, repeated fsck (or whatever a given
OS/filesystem calls it) is common, it applies to windows and mac
Ah, I didn't know that about running fsck multiple times - I remember
after doing my home directory - the more important one - it did say
"file system modified". I don't remember if the root fsck said that,
though. But it looks like I'm going to have re-install gentoo, in any
case, because
You need to run fsck repeatedly until it doesn't report any errors or
***file system modified messages before mounting! you need to run
it on all partitions. Some errors hide under other errors but will show up on
the next run. It's not unusual to have to run fsck 2-3 times, I've
trying to restore ... virtualbox won't come up (I was in virtualbox when
my window manager lost mouse coordination and I hat to "reboot").
I see that many of the files in /lost+found have virtualbox strings in
them. Anybody have an idea how to get them back to their proper places?
On 11/04/19
I had a power-loss situation and when the system came up I went into the
grub rescue screen - my root file system was trashed. I fsck-ed that
and had a ton of prompts until I did the "all" answer. I guess it can
happen, every once in a while - even with a journaling filesystem - I guess.
I
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