Ext3 users - Aug 2005 - URGENT: How to recover ext3 files?

Hi,

 

After panic boot, I have executed fsck for the mount point and we
couldn't find a single file. We have lot of directories under lost+found
like this #3194985.

 

Can anyone tell me how to recover the data from this folder? This is
urgent.

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards

Kapil Sampath

 

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up"

 
- Thomas Edison

 

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, kapil.sampath at wipro.com wrote:
> After panic boot, I have executed fsck for the mount point and we
> couldn't find a single file. We have lot of directories under
lost+found
> like this #3194985.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to recover the data from this folder? This is
> urgent.
I'm not sure I understand... are there files in those directories?  If 
so, then just move the directories out of lost+found, and give them 
reasonable names, and you're done.  This is what usually happens.

If the directories are all empty, then you have a much more serious 
problem.  Do you have backups?

Damian Menscher
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Hi,

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 09:56, kapil.sampath at wipro.com wrote:
> After panic boot, I have executed fsck for the mount point and we
> couldn?t find a single file. We have lot of directories under
> lost+found  like this #3194985.
> Can anyone tell me how to recover the data from this folder? This is
> urgent.
It sounds like the root directory of your filesystem was lost.  What
happens then is that a new root and /lost+found directory will be
created, and all inodes in the system which could be found will have
been relinked into the new /lost+found.

So you'll have lost the names of a lot of files, but their contents may
still be intact.  And as long as the subdirectories under / were not
lost, they will also still be intact, so any files beneath them will
still have the correct filenames, in subdirs of /lost+found.

Basically you'll just have to go through the files and directories in
/lost+found renaming them back to their correct filenames.  That will
involve manually examining their contents to work out where in the
recreated root directory to rename them to.

Cheers,
 Stephen