filesystem trashed 2004-01-16 - By John Mathey
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Hello all,
a few days I decided to upgrade my system with some new memory, don't
know if the memory was trashed or incompatible types, but the system ran
for about 3 hours then locked up, couldn't get in on the console or telnet,
so I had to slam it down. When I rebooted it, it complained about a trashed
file system so I ran e2fsck on it, while e2fsck was running, the kernel
paniced. Took me awhile to figure out what the problem was, so I put the
original memory back in, this allowed e2fsck to run to completion without
panicing, the result, unfortunately, was the filesystem got trashed,
everything got put into lost+found. The good news, if there is any, is that
this was not my primary partition, the boot partition was fine as are the
other 2 partitions, just this one. As luck would have it, this partition is
where I had alot of stuff that was fairly important. I have a backup, but
it's not real recent.
My question is, do I have any hope of recovering anything on this
filesystem. I have made some changes on the filesystem since the disaster (
ie: copied some stuff around) , so I'm sure some of the old inodes and such
have been overwritten, I'd like to hear of anyone who has actually
recovered stuff after a failure like this, or will I be better off simply
taking the painstaking route of manually going through the lost+found and
picking out what I can.
thanks in advance
John
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