judy m. down said: > I would like to recover as many as possible of my more than 1 million > files in a corrupted ext3 directory, *along with their filenames*. I > don't mind losing half the files, as long as the other half come with > their names. Without the names, the contents are useless.
> > Presumably this means recovering the directory itself, somehow. > Any ideas? Please reply to the list, not to me. this means recovering the files from your backup. there is another thread recently[1] about recovering from ext3/ext2 (or filesystems in general), your pretty much SOL in recovering file names, recovery doesn't work that way last I checked, it recovers files and names them according to INODE. of course if the data is *THAT* important you can always contact a data recovery specialist group, and for a fee(probably in the range of $300-400/hour) you can probably get some of the data recovered(ontrack is the only company that comes to mind, never used such a company myself). my former company had a similar disaster, after shipping(via moving truck) about 30 computers accross the country, one of the most critical ones(a CVS server for a software company) suffered damage that was not noticable. The system came up and worked flawlessly for 2 days, then all 3 of the raid drives failed at the same time(SCSI). luckily there was a backup. if you didn't have a backup, let this be a lesson. nate [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200211/thrd4.html#01536 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
