Hello everybody.

I have a big problem on my SuSE 9.0 system.
After a crash I lost several files and folders.
There are all kind of files missing: videos, images, etc

I did a fsck, no success:-(


I would appreciate any help.


Thx

What filesystem are you using? (ReiserFS, ext3, etc. If you don't know this, look in /etc/fstab)

Also, take a look in your /lost+found folder; it may have recovered some files in there (the filenames will be wrong though).

The major piece of advice I would give you is don't save anything to that partition if you can avoid it; it's likely that you've messed up your directory structure, so you may end up making the lost files unrecoverable if you save over them.

There are several ways to recover files, but they really do depend on the filesystem.

Hi,

my filesystem is reiserfs.

After I ran fsck, there is a folder lost+found, but there is only one file in it and I lost far more.

You could try doing BUT:
If possible, take a backup of the entire partition using (with the broken filesystem unmounted). There's a slim chance that rebuilding the tree could cause further problems, and this way you can always go back to the old partition. This step will take some time.

Only ever run fsck on an unmounted filesystem.

Also, do not interrupt fsck with the --rebuild-tree option, or you will damage the partiton.

I hope that helps,

— Robert J. Lee

Hi,

thanks for the advice.

But I already did this. Unfortunately with no success.

Is there any other possibility?

Thx

If --rebuild-tree didn't work, then you've lost the leaf nodes for the files.
All is not quite lost, as you could do which will scan the entire surface of the disk for anything that looks like data.

This is an expert option, but if you've got a backup of the partition then I don't think it could do much harm.

Hi! I had such problem...

I had a problem with my harddrive and I used "fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree". But, after this command, there were tons of files and folders in lost+found (I think this is my entire file tree). But the names of the files and folders are something like 100200_377281. Supposing that this thing (100200_377281) is a folder, I think that it belongs to a folder called ???_100200. Is this corret? And, if it is, is there any tool that reconstruct the entire tree back (only the structure)?


Thanks a lot,

Giovanni