They're not device files. There is a spreadsheet in my old user dir that I need. Unfortunately, the fsck util created a 'b' file type of the same name I assume in an attemp to recover the file. Now, something else is happening. I tried to dd the file out to a test filename. Now the parent directory is looping back to root (as in /). WTF? I assume my hd shat but I'm hoping it's not lost. Unfortunately, my data likely is. A buddy of mine said that there may be an alternate table I can point to to reindex this file system. It's EXT2, any luck?
<<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:55:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Major Crash > 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 ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
