Hi folks. What I did then yesterday night, was a fsck.ext3 -b 32768 -B4096 device There were MANY errors... (nearly all of them, that wouldn't be automatically corrected e.g. by -p). "Something" actually came back, though I cannot say (and probably never will, as there are millions) whether everything came back and/or whether the files are internally corrupted. The problem is that the old directory structure was not recovered, but _everything_ went into lost+found, some files directly in it (not with their correct names but #xxxxxx numbers) and also many directories (also with #xxxxxx numbers as names). The directories however do contain at least some subtrees of the original filesystem hierarchy (I mean with the correct names). I guess there's no (automatic) way now, to get the full directory structure as before, is there? Of course I have some backups but unfortunately dating back to last October (yes, I know, I'm stupid and deserved it ^^)... Will try now to use fdupes and/or rdfind, to sort out all files that are equal between backup and rescue fs and manually check and move back the others (a work of some months probably ^^). It's not that I wanna blame others (I mean being stupid is my fault), but e2fsprogs' mkfs is really missing a check whether any known filesystem/partition type/container (luks, lvm, mdadm, etc.) is already on device (and a -force switch),... IIRC xfsprogs already do this more or less. Thanks and cheers, Chris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
