Re: lost+found recovery

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 04/15/05

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    In article <3c7qjeF6jhd8vU1@individual.net>,
     Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> wrote:

    > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:37:24 -0400, Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent>
    > wrote:
    > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:48:14 -0400, whoha
    > > <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
    > >> Hello
    > >>
    > >> After a crash that required fsck to be run on the root device
    > >> [/dev/md/rdsk/d10] I have a directory in the lost+found that appears to
    > >> be the '/' directory.
    > >>
    > >> Can I fix this short of getting the backup tapes out?
    > >>
    > > That depends. If the files and directories within that directory
    > > still have their original names, you can mv them back where they belong.
    > > If they don't, restoring or reinstalling might be the only way.
    > > Do you know what caused the crash? Was it bad software, or a power
    > > failure, or is the hard drive dying?
    >
    > Been a long time since I looked, but I never remember seeing named
    > files in a lost and found directory, just numbered files. ?
    >

    If a directory ends up in there, it will have a numeric name, but its
    contents should still be the original names, just as the contents of an
    ordinary file that ends up in there should be the old contents. 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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