From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Sandel <webmaster@javainbaja.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Lost+found
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 06:28:39 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0804090628080.322@p34.internal.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.t9bm23aa3jf8g2@pc-bnaujok.melbourne.sgi.com>
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Barry Naujok wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:20:33 +1000, Jeffrey Sandel <webmaster@javainbaja.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Recently I ran xfs_repair due to a firmware upgrade on an unmounted
>> disk. The repair recovered the data but moved it to the lost+found
>> directory.
>>
>> How do I recover file names and ownership?
>
> The only real options you have AFAIK is the file command to try and identify
> what type of file it is and just manually inspecting the files.
>
> Then, you might be able to derive its filename and where it came from.
>
> Regards,
> Barry.
>
Is there any chance this process could ever be improved so that the files
are restored back to their original locations or there is something that
keeps track of where they were located?
Justin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-09 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-08 5:20 Lost+found Jeffrey Sandel
2008-04-09 2:12 ` Lost+found Barry Naujok
2008-04-09 10:28 ` Justin Piszcz [this message]
2008-04-09 13:11 ` Lost+found Eric Sandeen
2008-04-09 13:29 ` Lost+found Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-11 2:07 ` Lost+found Niv Sardi
2008-04-10 8:51 ` Lost+found Emmanuel Florac
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