topic Re: recovering files from lost+found folder in Operating System - Linux

recovering files from lost+found folder

Chakravarthi — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 02:06:34 GMT

Hi all,

how to recover files from lost+found.

thanks
chakri

Re: recovering files from lost+found folder

Stuart Browne — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 02:12:28 GMT

The contents of a file-system's '/lost+found/' should be files named by their old inode.

You should be able to reference/copy/move these as you would any other file on the filesystem.

You'd best ensure that the appropriate file has the contents you were expecting, and not a data-corruption.

Re: recovering files from lost+found folder

Chakravarthi — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 03:12:53 GMT

Yes, i see the inode numbers, is it possible to recover them with the previous file names..

thanks
chakri

Re: recovering files from lost+found folder

Stuart Browne — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:00:35 GMT

Erm, I'm not entirely certain that the file names are retained anywhere, but not 100% sure.

They might be in a log file, or the output of 'dmesg', as they might be in the output of the boot-up 'fsck' messages (don't think so though).

You can find out if the inode is currently in use by issuing:

find / -inum

But if the entire entry has been toasted, it won't help much.

Sorry, I have to admit to not having done much inode-level recovery of files.

Sorry.

Re: recovering files from lost+found folder

Saravanan_9 — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:24:30 GMT

hi,

just try that below url

http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml