Re: Restoring filenames from partly damaged ext4-filesystem

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On 02/10/2012 10:32 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 06:36:52PM +0000, Rudolf Zran wrote:
* "fsck.ext4 -b $SBOK -B 4096 -v -y /dev/loop0" recoveres after a long time.
   Filesystem is mountable. Root is empty besides lost+found folder, which
   contains about 300GB mostly useless data: Millions of files with wrong
   permissions, useless names and some random content.

I'd do this by making a copy of the file system first, of course….

I would have expected at least some subdirectories from your directory
hierarcy that contained useful content.

Just to set expectations, things that you might do that tried to look
for directory blocks, etc., *might* give you more useful filenames as
opposed to random inode numbers in lost+found, but it's unlikely to
recover any more *files*.  It sounds most of your files were located
in part of the inode table that got smashed, and so short of looking
at each data block to find useful bits, I doubt spending a lot of time
on trying to use or create more recovery tools based on file system
metadata is likely to result in more data getting recovered.


You do not need inode tables to get back a basic directory structure. Assigning directory blocks with '.' and '..' and then with real content provide the file system structure and also inode-number to name translation. Even better would be if secondary blocks also would have '.' and '..'.


Cheers,
Bernd
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