Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:17:55 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When stuff is in the lost+found directory Message-ID: <36A1AAC3.7EC95E2C@tci.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990117001435.23201K-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
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> If you're unlucky, the files themselves will have numeric names. Fixing > this really depends on how badly you need to do it, in your case, reinstall. LOL! Yeah, I'm unlucky. I hadn't noticed this when I initially wrote that question, but a few of those 100 entries are directories; these directories (as you said) have files in 'em with real names. Names like "bookmarks.html" and "Mac.pm". Big woop there, huh? There are two files in the top level lost+found directory that are symlinks to English names, e.g. #206393 -> libdecrypt.so.2 and #206397 -> libcipher.so.2 but that's it - all other files have #xxxxxx names. What does that fixit option in /stand/sysinstall do? I haven't been able to get it to run yet but am wondering what it'd do if I pursued it. I'm just playing at this point, anyway, basically just learning on a system where it really doesn't matter what I break. > If you want to pursue the latter situation, nm, strings and file run > against the files plus a working system to check against can get you > going. I once had to do this via voice phone and it was not fun :) > (BTW, they did have backups but the drive had died and no one noticed > the error messages) Gawd, sounds like a PITA. Ex: # nm "#206451" /usr/libexec/elf/nm: a.out: No such file or directory # file "#206451" "206451: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969, os: Unix strings shows absolutely nothing useful without a working system to compare the output to. Ah, well.... I made copies of anything I think I want to keep and at this point am just playing around. It's a good way to learn.... Thanks for your time, Dan. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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