lost+found

[Paul Williams]

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 10:12 +0200, albi albinootje wrote:
> 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
> 
It is a giant ELF file:
/lost+found/#5881: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for
GNU/Linux 2.6.0, stripped

> 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
> 
It's not in UTF, it's unreadable.


Thanks,
Paul Williams (paul at smoothweb.net) | Jabber: pwill at jabber.org
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