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- From: mckee@hpmckee (Bret Mckee)
- Subject: Re: recovering files from /lost+found
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:35:39 GMT
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- : Some files were put in the /lost+found directory,
- : and we need to recover those. Is there an easy
- : way to conver the numbers to "real" file names that
- : they were prior to the crash?
-
- Unfortunatly, No. The reason that fsck put them there is because it looked
- like they were still good files (non-zero link count), but there were no
- directory entries referencing it. So, it puts it in lost and found and
- names it the inode number.
-
- Bret
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