Lost+Found, ext3 and data loss
Laurent Humblet
mailinglists at invisibleray.com
Sun Dec 13 13:39:55 UTC 2009
Hi,
I have a 300Gb HD on which I did three partitions: swap, ext3 for 8.10
and ext3 (or ext2) for Data/Backups. I had it as my main HD for a while
before I did an upgrade to 9.04 which I'm still on (haven't had the time
to upgrade to 9.10 yet).
I did unplug the HD for a while to install 9.04 on another HD. This
week, I wanted to go through all the HD I had and make a list of all of
them and this is when I encounter the problem with my 300Gb HD.
I did plug the 300Gb through an external USB HD connector. I couldn't
mount both HD for some strange reasons so I ran fsck on them both. What
happened was that the Data/Backup partition I had got a 'lost+found'
folder with all #?????? files (??? being replaced with various
alphanumerical chars).
After reading a bit about it, I found that it's a comon practice for
fsck to move files around in lost+found when something is broken in the HD.
Here are my questions:
- is there any chance for me to recover the HD as it was _before_ fsck?
- is there any chance for me to recover parts of the filenames
automatically?
- what should I be doing now to recover my data with the greatest of ease?
- why is fsck moving files around into lost+found on such a case and by
doing so, writing on a hard drive that could be corrupted?
- in the future, if such a solution happen, what are the best steps for
me to take to avoid having fsck moving all the files around and by doing
so, risking to loose the entire filesystem?
Thank you for your help and reccomandations,
Regards,
Laurent
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