Re: HELP: dir changed to a file and fsck f*cked me
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 08/02/03
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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 08:45:18 -0400
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 04:57:41 GMT, Dustin
<blackened@nospam.austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I have a directory that somehow changed to a file, and now I lost all
> the contents of that directory. It had several gigs worth of mp3's,
> and now they're all gone. Besides being incredibly pissed off, I
> don't know what to do to fix it. I tried a reboot and it ran fsck,
> then bitched, dropped me to root mode, and told me to run fsck
> manually. I did so, and it died on some short read b.s. and asked me
> if I wanted to ignore the error. I said no, so it decided to exit
> fsck, and subsequent attempts at running fsck showed that my disk was
> clean with no errors.
>
> WTF is going on? I'm trying to keep my cool as I type this, but I am
> so pissed right now that all my data is gone. The data is still on
> the drive, because the directory was very large, and that disk space
> has not been reclaimed ever since the dir changed permissions.
>
Have you looked in /lost+found?
-- Excuse me, but didn't I tell you there's NO HOPE for the survival of OFFSET PRINTING?
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