[Linux-disciples] lost+found files

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

I would look at the ASCII text files, but it appears to me that these are
just files that were lost from Debian packages in your recent disk
corruption incident that have since been reinstalled.

The #'s in lost+found correspond to inodes where those files were found
prior to being "lost."  This is not all that unusual when something bad
happens to the disk; conceivably it could be caused by a bad shutdown or
power cycling the Omnibook.

If you want to see all the contents of the "ASCII text" files with one
command line, try (from the lost+found directory):

file * | grep "ASCII" | sed -e "s/^#//g" -e "s/:.*//g" | xargs cat | less

That should display them all to the screen.

You might also look inside the lost+found entries that are actually
directories to see if there is anything important in there.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:34:55AM -0400, Nirmal Trivedi wrote:
> 
> > What sort of gibberish?  Usually such files are junk, but it's worth
> > checking to be sure that they aren't, e.g., word processor files that
> > got corrupted somehow.  Try 'file'.
> 
> Here's the output from "file": Any of this looks particularly vital? I
> don't see any Word processor files. 
> 
> #1146949: gzip compressed data, was "README.mod_auth_external", from
> Unix, max compression
> #1146977: ASCII English text
> #1146978: gzip compressed data, was "changelog", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1146979: gzip compressed data, was "changelog.Debian", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1147008: gzip compressed data, was "README.icons", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1147013: gzip compressed data, was "ap_config.h", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1147035: ASCII text
> #1147094: ASCII text
> #1147164: ASCII text
> #1147165: ASCII English text
> #1147201: directory
> #1147209: ASCII text
> #1147225: HTML document text
> #1147226: ASCII English text
> #1147227: ASCII text
> #1147261: ASCII English text
> #1147277: ASCII text
> #1147363: ASCII English text
> #1147546: ASCII text
> #1147547: ASCII text
> #1147548: HTML document text
> #1147549: HTML document text
> #1147550: gzip compressed data, was "changelog", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1147551: ASCII English text
> #1147552: gzip compressed data, was "NEWS.Debian", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1147553: gzip compressed data, was "README.Debian", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1147554: gzip compressed data, was "changelog.Debian", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1147555: ASCII English text
> #1147556: ASCII English text
> #1147557: gzip compressed data, was "README.mod_auth_cache", from Unix,
> max compression
> #1147558: gzip compressed data, was "README.mod_auth_cookie", from Unix,
> max compression
> #1147559: gzip compressed data, was "mod_roaming.txt", from Unix, max
> compression
> #1392858: directory
> #1458230: symbolic link to `/var/tmp/kdecache-root'
> #1622084: directory
> #1687570: ASCII text
> #1933550: directory
> #1999158: directory
> #2080824: Bourne shell script text executable
> #2261070: directory
> #2375726: ASCII English text
> #2752854: directory
> #462768:  PNG image data, 17 x 17, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
> #462769:  PNG image data, 17 x 17, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
> #462770:  PNG image data, 17 x 17, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
> #462771:  PNG image data, 24 x 24, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
> #462772:  PNG image data, 16 x 16, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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