I have Debian/Stable installed on one partition formatted as ext3. Recently, when booting into my Debian/Stable partition a check was forced and fsck failed. I was then prompted to enter the root password and run fsck manually. It was also mentioned that the file system was mounted read-only and a command was given to remount in read-write mode.
I misunderstood this as a direction to first remount in read-write mode and then run fsck. I proceeded to answer yes to _many_ prompts from fsck. Although the file system was then pronounced clean it failed to reboot. After further inspection almost all evidence of the former file system was gone. Only lost+found remains. Lost+found contains over 300 entries numbered #1504387 through #4635638. About 50 of these are directories. One of these directories contains most of my user's home directory, though many of the subdirectories that I am interested in appear empty. In particular I am looking for jpeg images. I have tried recover, e2undel, debugfs, and lde. There was very little I could recover with these programs. For example, lde shows: 0x0016F5A2: drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 #1504674 This directory lists many of the subdirectories and files from /home/gary, for example: 0x00000000: pictures 0x00097D35: -rw-r--r-- 2 179 .jedrc Is there anything I can do to recover files from these lost directories? I've read, "Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been deleted and hope for the best." Is this still true? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
