Question marks in the directory attributes, need help fixing.
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Question marks in the directory attributes, need help fixing.
I have a raid 5 1.5TB partition that two of the three hard drives went offline at the same time the OS was writing to the hard drive. The computer locked up and I rebooted it. I went into the 3ware bios and started the raid 5 rebuild. After all that the OS (fedora 7) said it had to run fsck and dropped to a runlevel something and I ran fsck manually. It took about 4 hours then finally said can't find lost+found and gave an error.
I booted knoppix and debugfs /dev/sda2 on it. There is one folder /vm that has the question marks in the attributes. It says it isn't a directory but it is. stat /vm showed unknown.
I NEED the .vmdk files in that directory. How do I fix this directory so it IS a directory again with all the files? I can then mount a remote anything and copy the files off the server.
I don't know that much about how ext3 works, nor do I understand why fsck didn't find the file fragments and simple rename then in another folder similar to chkdsk /f /r c: in windows would have done.
I, obviously, have a vmware virtual machine in that folder than I need to retrieve the virtual hard drive files from. There is a directory that contains pictures that I failed to backup for over a month and my wife is super pissed. Please show me mercy and help me find these files.
Sorry so long but I have tried many things first before asking here. Oh I also dd the entire partition over to a 2TB external hard drive just in case.
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