On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Joe Polk wrote: > Okay, I moved my mail server this weekend. No biggie. Consquently, my > list mail backed up and I had over 200 email messages from this list to > download into Evolution to my laptop, not to mention my other mailboxes > that I use Evolution to check. Well, everything downloaded fine except > the list mail. At some point, Evolution popped in error on the screen > and halted (I don't have the error). The entire system froze. When I > rebooted, init failed with a kernel panic, init not found. Panic ensued > so I booted with the RH8 cd and attempted a rescue. No luck. I had to > run fsck and a HUGE about of files were dumped into lost+found. Or so I > thought. There are some files there but most have a file type of "b" as > in brw-rw---- foo. Can I recover any of these? I am only concerned with > one file but if I try to copy one of these files it says no "such > device'. Any hope of getting at least 1 or two files? Thanks!
ouch, you lost a bunch of *device* files? if you know which ones you want to rebuild, there's a script called MAKEDEV in the /dev directory that can help. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
