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[jgrafton]

# ls /etc
ls: /etc: No such file or directory
# ls /home/jgrafton
# ls -1 /lost+found | wc -l
16538

So yeah, about as bad as I thought.  It at least appears that files from my homedir exist to some varying quantity in /lost+found, though I have no idea if they're corrupted or not.

Current plan of attack, I believe, is to gather as much of the "important files" as I can off of the system (probably copy them into windows using some ext2 reader program - is there a better way?), then reinstalling Gentoo.

Sigh.  This will happen after I finish 212 first, of course.

Stupid AFS.

Edit 1122: It seems that I'm extremely lucky, as I was able to recover all my photos, my ssh key, pgp key, most of the classwork I've done in the last year.5, gaim logs, etc etc. Going through lost+found directory by directory is a bit painful though - I don't recommend it. There's also still about 16000 files in my lost+found, for which I have no idea what they are - seeing as I've already gotten most of the "important" files, I'm not sure I care enough to try to filter through the rest.

Comments

[languishinghack.livejournal.com]

i'm assuming you've run fsck? when my fs crashed, fsck managed to save most (~80-90%) of my corrupted files

[languishinghack.livejournal.com]

*note: i meant run multiple times, i think i ran it like 20x and each time it did one better than the previous iteration*

[chrsjxn.livejournal.com]

This is what you get for trying to do neat things.

Especially with AFS.

Use Perl

[dachte.livejournal.com]

I suggest you use Perl to make it easier to sort things -- use the "file" command (or moral equivalent) to get an idea what a given filetype is, and have perl move all files into subdirectories of a 'sort' directory based on what type they are (adding extentions as appropriate). Dig through that at your leisure.

As another note, knoppix makes a better way to recover linux (and in fact windows too!) systems when they fail. Boot, bring up the network and mount your disks, and samba/scp/atalk your files somewhere safe.