Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-06 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Gary Parker wrote: > Some of the jpg files are corrupted. Interestingly gimp displays a preview of > the images in the open dialog box, but won't open them. Any ides on how to > salvage corrupt jpg images? Thumbnail can be saved inside JPEG file as Exif data, so GIMP is probably displaying it,

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-06 Thread Gary Parker
Linas Žvirblis <0x0007 gmail.com> writes: > You did mount it read-only as in... >mount -o ro /dev/disk /mnt/location > ...did not you? I didn't think of that. I had a line in fstab to mount the partition automatically with defaults. I have since removed that line. > The "testdisk" package,

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-02 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Gary Parker wrote: > I've searched every file in lost+found with a few different tools: gqview, > nautilus, lde, find with file. Although I found some of my files in various > directories in lost+found, there are a couple of directories whose files are > nowhere to be found there. [...] > Is it

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-02 Thread Gary Parker
Linas Žvirblis <0x0007 gmail.com> writes: > 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. Thanks for your advice. File confirms the identities of files I wa

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/1/06, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gqview. It will show thumbnails of correct pictures Sir, Excellent! Danke. Perhaps Mr. Gary Parker will let us know how he's doing with this problem... -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a loone

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Derek
Oh man that sucks,I hope that never happens to me.On 5/31/06, Gary Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 p

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:40:53 -0400 "Eric d'Alibut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/31/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 scri

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/31/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-05-31 Thread Linas Žvirblis
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 a

fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-05-31 Thread Gary Parker
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