[ubuntu-in] Recovering files from lost+found

[Kartik Singhal]

HI all,
Yesterday, after transferring a lot of linux ISOs from my NTFS partitions to
my home partition on ext3 file system (both types of FSs on same harddisk)
and restarting my Ubuntu 8.04.1 system, I received an error saying that I
have to run "fsck" manually in the maintenance mode as my root partition
encountered some problems in the automatic (routine) file system check. I
ran it and answered yes (the default option) to all questions.

After the check, I logged into the system and was shocked to see that the
ISOs I just transferred were not there in the home directory. There were
some other problems such as all my bookmarks (in Places) were gone and I
also received an error saying that TomBoy couldn't load.

I searched around and finally found some files starting with "#" in the
lost+found folder of /home. I found out about their sizes and was relieved
to see that some of them were around 700 MB in size (which means my lost
ISOs). But there were only 3 files with this big size and I had more ISOs
than 3. Apart from ISOs I have lost many of my configuration file which are
present in home folder (most importantly those of vmware, so that I am
unable to use it.)

I want to know how can I recover my files from lost+found and also those
that are not present in that directory but lost. Please help. I am a newbie
in linux and have never encountered data loss problems in linux (I thought
they were windows things).

-- 
Kartik
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