There should be a lost+found directory in the root of each local
(harddisk) filesystem mounted on your system. Any lost files *should* be
in there. For example, if your /home is in it's own partition, it's root
directory is /home, so there would be a /home/lost+found directory. The
bad news is the filenames are lost, so you'll have to use less and file to
identify what the files are.
I'm surprised you had that much corruption from one unclean shutdown.
These systems sync the contents of the buffers to the disk pretty quick.
rna
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ren wrote:
> this is probably due to my lack of experience...but i'll post the
> question anyway...
>
> I just had my linux laptop lock up...not sure why, but it completely
> locked up, so i had to shut it down manually and reboot. On the reboot
> I got the message about the drives being uncleanly unmounted and it
> prceeded to to a fsck which it then stopped and had me log in and do it
> manually.... so I did.
>
> I'm not to experieced with fsck or the file system itself... I have no
> idea what an inode is or what the messages are the come up during the
> scan. It ask me if i'd like to repair my errors, I said yes to the
> prompts... fixing things is always a good thing......right?
>
> So any way, it completed all it's checks and then I was able to boot up
> like normal. Now the real fun begins.... alot of my preferences were
> gone, and it came up with the default windowmaker desktop... fonts were
> back to defaults, my dock apps didn't load, Mozilla is missing filters,
> and several other things are no longer setup up.... can someone explain
> to me why this happend? and how i can prevent it from happening in the
> future?
>
>
>
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