Help! Help! All my files are gone

Stephanie · 09-27-2002, 09:13 PM

I have no idea why, but all of my files have disappeared! The drive used space stats are fine, but I cannot see any files.

Does anyone know how to get them back! I am using ReiserFS

trickykid · 09-27-2002, 09:31 PM

Oh man, that sucks. I hope you made a backup. Not sure of anyway to get your files back. Have you checked your log files to see if you can't find anything there that might be related ? Is it just your files in a particular directory or home directory ??

Stephanie · 09-27-2002, 09:57 PM

Update:

I just turned on Nautilus, and I can see my files again. However, they till be there, but I cannot get into them. Folders, files, nothing. I cant even see their properties.

I am curious as to whether these files are still there or not. Could it be a bad file table? I mean, what could cause this?

MasterC · 09-28-2002, 12:17 AM

Sorry if this sounds stupid...

Have you tried using xterm or mc to view the files and see if you can see them that way?

Cool

Stephanie · 09-29-2002, 04:47 PM

Well I finally got my files back. I ran reiserfsck and rebuilt my tree on the partition. It took almost 3 hours, but they came back.

Now I am wondering how that could happen.