On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:57:58AM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Major crash. 4000+ files in /lost+found. > (/vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE) > > The obvious strategy to re-install and re-update. Does anyone have a > better idea? Depends on what is in the 4000 files. You might be able to do a "yum reinstall *". "rpm -qa" can remind you what you have installed. That can put a lot of problems right. In some cases a 'liveCD' can help in a bootstrap process that gets you to the point that yum works and does not risk more data loss. In olden times recovering lost+found was necessary to finish recovering as much data as possible. It was common to move lost+found to a different dir name and then a shell script mklost+found would do a mkdir followed by touching then removing a large number of files so the system would have inodes in lost+found dir to reconnect lost chunks of stuff to. Then at some measured pace each file/ block found in lost+found was inspected and assigned to a user that can identify his data. See the man page for mklost+found -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
