On Jan 19, 2003 04:08 -0800, Patrick Hendricks wrote: > Here is what I did: I have two linux boxes. the first box had many > hardrives in it, but needed to be used in other ways. So I took 4 > harddrives out of it and placed it in the other Linux box. I thought it > would be able to read these right away. (maybe this was my mistake?) I You are correct - you should be able to mount them just fine in the new system. > could mount all of the drives in there. three of my drives had all > their data remain intact, but the fourth one did not. all that remained > on the 4th drive was the lost+found directory. > > I'm sure the data is still there, it's just eluding me. sadly I don't > know how to find it. Thought I found dump2fs which tells me that it > needs recovery. don't know how much help this will give: No, there is nothing on this drive - see "Inode count" and "Free Inodes", which are only 11 apart - the number of reserved inodes. See also the "Filesystem created" date, only 8 days ago. Is it possible you accidentally reformatted your drive? > Inode count: 3751936 > Block count: 7502347 > Reserved block count: 375117 > Free blocks: 7376401 > Free inodes: 3751925 > Filesystem created: Sun Jan 12 20:33:30 2003 > Last mount time: Sun Jan 19 17:16:18 2003 > Last write time: Sun Jan 19 17:16:18 2003 Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
