From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 05:13:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A4D106566B for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:13:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bryant.eadon@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABF88FC18 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bryant.eadon@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so71067ywe.13 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:13:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+PEH4+N9Ehi2tkgm8ZSoxtPxfaT4GjmfsIAOsUHUn7M=; b=AlsCWAOsWjIFfjpBISJRYsPk3Sb6GTZAg+xrjxno+Ofce4CCEMW4JEDInY5z36FT88 p5WofhUYs6FMS2hwhQs2A7EbfxIKyQMl++eFkEq/LEeihoKxxmozxRONjGRC5I7SgNCn keR+/RhI0KFLHr6cXIZ/pJhUU6RQQ3uzbokWY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MVGJZMETbJf66J2PfSPDHx4tTA/SsgbiGCjcppZuJZoIz8RV903g2dcclbKSKQ0/lJ /X9c/MQqXSbMmwCn9LCpw+vCa1AtOvUd2EBK/vZvprZ95APfZHNvPtuMPKF7X5WUBW52 xAZ3ijACtPKRhJaTqk2k5rDBohPbZTHfw6Q8U= Received: by 10.90.36.16 with SMTP id j16mr2628798agj.87.1221108709053; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.4? ( [64.119.85.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w43sm4373047hsa.19.2008.09.10.21.51.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48C8A3DE.4040907@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:51:42 -0400 From: Bryant Eadon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Ran fsck, now all files are in lost+found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: onlinepersona@phynd.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:13:40 -0000 So, I moved a RAID5 device between a FreeBSD 6.0 machine to fresh FreeBSD 7.0 machine. When I attempted to mount the device the OS complained that the disk had not bee unmounted properly -- figuring it was probably correct, I diligently dropped to single user mode and ran fsck on the disk. I ran 'fsck -t ufs -y'. all seemed fine and dandy until I tried to remount the volume after bringing it back to multi-user mode. The disk space was occupied, but it all resided in lost+found with names like : #0000001 , #0000002 etc... !! Each file was multiple gigabytes worth of data without file structures (as far as I could tell) Is there an way to recover from this problem ? I would be losing quite a lot of data, any help you could give would be appreciated. Help, B