lost+found

[albi albinootje]

On 10/22/06, paul at smoothweb.net <paul at smoothweb.net> wrote:

> fsck ran on startup, does to the 30x mount thing, but it encountered
> some errors. It dropped my to a shell, and I ran fsck again, and it said
> it fixed everything. Now I have a 2GB file in /lost+found/ called
> "#5881"
>
> I am thinking this is a clone of the corrupted files, but I don't know.

probably

i would try the following :
1)  run:   file /lost+found/#5881
 to see what kind of file it is

2) look at the beginning of the file, as following :
   dd if=/lost+found/#5881 of=/tmp/test.txt count=1024

 open /tmp/test.txt in a txt-editor, and see whether you can recognise it