Directory turned into a file

[L. Younes]

Hi,

I'm sorry to be asking this here, but I need all the help I can get, and at Sun's Forum nobody replied. I'm sure there is some Solaris experts among you.

After a Solaris 7 system reboot, a whole directory tree turned into a single file, with the size of the previous tree.

Is there a way to regain my directory tree ?
fsck doesn't report anything!

Thanks a lot !

[harry d brown jr]

Sounds like a superblock got clobbered and fsck probably just made the whole damn thing a file.

The fix is: restore from tape.

You really need to upgrade (cold install) to Solaris 9.

Have you looked into "Veritas" as a filesystem manager products, similar to JFS and LVM?

live free or die
harry

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

You could check lost+found directory, else restoring from backup is the only option.

And YES veritas volume manager is great !!!!!!!!

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

Ps. I'l take a look at SunSolve if i can find something.

[L. Younes]

Thank you for your answers,
we cannot upgrade to solaris 9 because we compile for clients that have solaris 7.

I agree about Veritas !

I'll try the tape restore
option.

Thanks !