[lug] Directory problem

[Zan Lynx]

Gary Hodges wrote:
> I was moving a lot of files (many 1000s) to a directory when my machine 
> spontaneously rebooted.  First time that has ever happened (maybe an ECC 
> error???), and maybe a subject for a future post, but in the meantime...
> 
> I was moving these files to a directory I named 2007.  This directory 
> currently looks like:
> /data1/ARM/Mentor/SGP>ls -l
> total 5856
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges 1137544 2009-08-31 14:56 2005/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges 1127624 2009-08-31 14:55 2006/
> ?--------- ? ?      ?            ?                ? 2007
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges  872456 2009-08-31 16:07 2007a/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges  915720 2009-08-31 14:46 2008/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges  715616 2009-08-31 14:44 2009/
> 
> I can't do anything with 2007 now (cd, ls, chmod, chown, sudo or 
> otherwise).  I know some files were put in 2007 before the reboot.  I 
> tucked the remaining ones in 2007a for now.  Is there anything I can do 
> to resurrect directory 2007?

You are going to need to run a full fsck on that filesystem. After that, 
your directory may be fixed, or it or pieces of it may end up in 
lost+found at the filesystem root.
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Zan Lynx
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