Thx. That's one try. BTW: what is a .milk file? There were several of these I found under several layers under lost+found. Ken -----Original Message----- From: Brian McCullough <bdmc@bdmcc-us.com> Subj: Re: [SOLVED?] rebuilding LV ext4 filesystem Date: Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:58 am Size: 1K To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:34:45AM -0700, Ken Bass wrote: > Okay, I finally got to do what Stuart D. Gathman suggested. And it worked, > sort of. > > NOW: I am left with a clean ext filesystem, but with about 300GB in > lost+found, and not other files. Just guessing on that amount, since that is > how much was on the LV before the crash. So the next logical and obvious > (and desperate) question is: how to I restore all (or any) of the files > under lost+found? > > Most of them (that I am interested in)were either image files (jpg, png, > bmp), ISO images (DVD, CD), music files (mp3, flac, etc), and a few MS > executables. Is there a utiliity that can help restore these files, maybe > scan the lost+found files for these types? Not a lot of help, probably, but the "file" command should at least give you some idea of what type of files they are. Brian _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
