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.
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.
thanks.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sudhir Gandotrasudhir.openlx@gmail.com 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
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Easwar Hariharanmeindian523@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sudhir Gandotrasudhir.openlx@gmail.com 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.
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Easwar Hariharan -
Sudhir Gandotra