Gary Parker wrote: > 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'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? Something like this happened to me once (but I do not remember why). Lost+found contained various entries that did not make any sense at first, but they actually appeared to be files I was looking for, only with weird names, and _scattered_ all over the place. What I mean, is that if files were in a certain directory, they can no longer be in that one directory. You will probably need to check all of them to find what you are looking for. A valuable tool in this case is "file". It can identify loads of different file formats, and can be very effective in conjunction with some shell scripting. There is also tool called "testdisk". I have never used it, but it does seem to have some very useful features. It is highly unlikely that you will be able to recover a lot of useful data by examining hard drive physically, but if that is important for you, here are some tips: * Only operate the disk in read-only mode. * First of all try to locate you data in _files_ in lost+found. Most of it should be should still be there. It is just a matter of copying the files and renaming them properly. * After you have salvaged your files, then you may want to do physical analysis of the disk using "testdisk" or similar tools, if there are still thing missing. Of course, this is based on the assumption that you do have another disk or a separate bootable partition available. Otherwise you will have to move files around in the same partition and this will overwrite parts of files that might have survived somewhere on disk. In my case, I was able to locate all my important data in lost+found. Chances are that you will also. Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
