[lug] lost and found
D. Stimits
stimits at attbi.com
Tue Mar 25 13:27:45 MST 2003
jdavis wrote:
> hello,
> I crashed Gnome and my box. I rebooted, during the file check a
> orphaned inode was appended to lost and found. So now in lost and found
> I have this file...
>
> ns2:~# ls /lost+found/
> #144557
>
> can i or should i do anything with this file other than delete it?
It all depends. Use an editor to view the file. If it is plain text, you
might be able to recognize what it came from, and attempt manual repair.
If not plain text, you could run the strings command on it to read
strings, and perhaps at least know what it came from (though you
couldn't repair a binary file with that unless the entire binary file
was empty...then you could just copy it over). Most of the time you'll
just end up removing it, though it wouldn't hurt to let it stick around
for a while until you determine no odd behavior is going on (and if
there is odd behavior, it might still have no value in determining a fix).
D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com
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