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Re: all files moved to lost+found

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On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 11:09:50 -0300 Beco said:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a bit of a problem I never faced before and I'm in need of some
> guidance that may require some patience if to do it right and not lose any
> data.
> 
> I have a lenovo ideapad 320, and I changed its internal HD to a 2TB
> seagate, 3 months ago.
> 
> In the last couple of weeks I got this "small" problem twice:
> 
> Laptop won't boot saying it couldn't read /home partition. The only
> partition in the 2TB plus a swap. OS is in a SSD.
> 
> So, twice I could login as root single mode, run:
> 
> e2fsck -vy /dev/sda3
> 
> and boot ok after lots of messages of inodes failing to do their inodes
> thing.
> 
> This time was different: I booted the machine and it won't complain, just
> opened KDE with no icons on it. Blank desktop, with my owl wallpaper.
> 
> I was worried, moved to tty1, killed the desktop section and then run the
> same e2fsck above. Again, lots of inodes errors.
> 
> No badblocks. I also run e2fsck -pckv /dev/sda3 which took 5 hours to
> finish, and no badblocks.
> 
> Now, I rebooted it, and still, same empty /home/user
> 
> I notice on the other hand that there are A LOT of files under
> /home/lost+found
> All names are just numbers in the form "#383389933" and so on. Even
> directories like that.
> 
> I used "file #339938383" to see what the file is about. I found some PGN
> images, and I could also identify some of my directories. They seem to be
> all there. Just the names are crazy, and they are not in /home/user.
> 
> Now that I never got before.
> 
> How should I proceed?
> 
> Is there a command that brings back lost+found files to theis
> "found-and-not-lost" correct places?
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> Beco

Hi Beco,

As I understand it you had repeated disk failures and consecutively a massive
file-system	corruption.

The files in lost+found are those that are recovered by fsck. There are
probably unrecovered ones too (lost forever). As for restoring their original
names and directory hierarchy, I don't know if it is possible at all - other
than manually inspecting and renaming/relocating every one of them separately.
I think the best course of action would be dealing with the hardware and FS
corruption issue first, and then reformatting /home and restoring from backups.

-- 
Abdullah Ramazanoğlu

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all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-09-30 16:20 +0200
  Re: all files moved to lost+found Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-09-30 19:20 +0200
    Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-09-30 21:30 +0200
      Re: all files moved to lost+found Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-09-30 22:10 +0200
  Re: all files moved to lost+found David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-09-30 20:30 +0200
    Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-09-30 21:30 +0200
      Re: all files moved to lost+found bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-09-30 21:50 +0200
        Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-09-30 22:00 +0200
          Re: all files moved to lost+found Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-09-30 22:30 +0200
    Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-10-02 02:40 +0200
      Re: all files moved to lost+found David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-02 04:10 +0200
        Re: all files moved to lost+found Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-02 05:50 +0200
          Re: all files moved to lost+found David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-02 08:20 +0200
            Re: all files moved to lost+found Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-02 14:20 +0200
      Re: all files moved to lost+found Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-02 06:10 +0200
        Re: all files moved to lost+found David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-02 08:40 +0200
          Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-10-04 05:10 +0200
            Re: all files moved to lost+found songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-04 13:40 +0200
              Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-10-05 03:00 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-10-05 15:00 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-05 15:40 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-10-10 06:20 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-10 07:40 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-10 23:40 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-11 08:00 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-11 14:50 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-12 00:00 +0200
                Re: all files moved to lost+found David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-11 05:40 +0200
        Re: all files moved to lost+found Beco <rcb@beco.cc> - 2018-10-05 15:10 +0200

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