Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 02:04:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 02:04:26 -0500 Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.60]:20888 "EHLO smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 02:04:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3A29E92F.119BC47B@haque.net> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 01:33:19 -0500 From: "Mohammad A. Haque" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Saber Taylor CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: lost dirs after fsck-1.18 (kt133, ide, dma, test10, test11) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You saying that you were running test kernels on a production box and seriously didn't expect something bad to happen? Filesystem corruptions arent things you can recover files from. You're confusing accidentally deleting files and undeleting them later. What would be useful is if you noted where/why you ran 'fsck -y'. Did you crash and fs check at boot failed? What? Saber Taylor wrote: > > Well that's the last time I run a devel kernel with a nontest > system. sigh. > > Had one directory replaced with a different directory > and also a directory replaced with a file. Possible further > corruption. > > I don't think I lost the directories until I did a 'fsck -y' > on the partition. Something to remember. > > If anyone has advice on recovering the directories other than > the following links, I'm all ears: > > http://www.datafoundation.org/lde/ > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html > (last updated February 1999) > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion-Dir-Struct/ > > Saber Taylor -- ===================================================================== Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ mhaque@haque.net "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Project Lead Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://wm.themes.org/ batmanppc@themes.org ===================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/