Dir gone - how to get it back?

[chris]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 22:56 -0700, rikona wrote:
> Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 7:08:25 PM, chris wrote:
> 
> <big snip>
> 
> >> > It wouldn't be the first time a new disk fails ! But if "smart" or
> >> > "badblocks" doesn't complain it's probably not the case, unless the disk
> >> > is too new and as a weird smart implementation.
> >> 
> >> > HIH
> >> 
> >> Thank you VERY much for the detailed info! It helped a lot. I don't
> >> know much about the 'guts' of Linux, so each of these 'adventures' is
> >> a learning experience. [My big problem is remembering *exactly* what I
> >> did, 2-3 years from now, when I might have the same situation again.]
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 
> >>  rikona        
> 
> > That is why you print these emails to a pdf
> 
> I favor saving this kind of stuff as text - fancier stuff to pdfs.
> 
> > and then archive them off the machine. :-)
> 
> indeed. :-) And perhaps more often than I have been doing it. Some of
> us learn the hard way. :-)      
> 
> -- 
> 
>  rikona        
> 
> 
That has always been my problem  :-)