A couple questions, did you look OpenBSD installer create the filesystems or did you define a custom layout?
FWIW, you should have a pretty good idea what is in/home. I reckon you could ignore lost+found contents as they would be related to some application running when the fault occurred. 73 diana On September 5, 2023 11:31:26 AM MDT, John Holland <johnbholl...@icloud.com> wrote: >I have a backup that is at least 2 days old offsite at a friend’s house. It >would be a bit of a pain to go retrieve it, but I could do that. > > Short of that, I have 4000+ files in lost+found with names like #1094827. > What can I do with those? I tried running “file” on the first 50 via xargs > and they mostly at least purport to be some sort of intact file. How can I > determine what they are? Please don’t suggest that I manually use “file” and > then an appropriate program to examine each one in turn > >> On Sep 5, 2023, at 1:17 PM, Andreas Kähäri <andreas.kah...@abc.se> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:54:58AM -0400, John Holland wrote: >>> I just had a kernel panic when reloading a firefox tab pointed at facebook. >>> After restarting, all the filesystems had errors but /home was particularly >>> bad and caused the boot to stop and prompt if I wanted to enter a root >>> shell. >>> >>> >>> I eventually got fsck to mark the /home filesystem clean but it found >4000 >>> lost files that it moved to lost&found. I am not so experienced with this, >>> running "file" on a few of them shows that they may be intact files but they >>> have numeric names now. >> [cut] >> >> >> A regular external backup would have saved your data no matter what >> filesystem you might have been using. There are a few different backup >> solutions available in the ports tree. I use restic, both on OpenBSD >> and macOS. >> >> >> -- >> Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri >> SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM >> Uppsala University, Sweden >> >> . >> >
