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My secondary 250gb SATA hard drive with a single ext3 partition started playing up under windows yesterday, and then refused to work under linux or windows entirely, so i did the obvious thing and ran e2fsck -y /dev/sda2.
Bad move!
Apparently my entire directory structure has been trashed, and i have 13000 files and a few hundred directories in /mnt/sata/lost+found (and nothing in /mnt/sata.)
Does anyone have any advice? All the files appear to be still there, but i'm damned if i can figure out how to piece them back together again (or if it's even possible.)
Will just renaming the lost folders back to their original names work? (there are still 13000 files lying around that i have little chance of ever finding out the original locations or names of, but it's a start.)
Cheers;
-lws
"Tandis qu'ils dorment, nous gagnerons."
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Thanks for the link, somairotevoli.
As for the other ~13000 loose files - i know that Foremost (a datacarving program) recognises the original type of a file by analysing its sturcture and headers and soforth - anyone know of a similar tool that does the same thing for discrete files instead of entire volumes?
cheers;
-lws
"Tandis qu'ils dorment, nous gagnerons."
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