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Subject: Help : recover old filesys from lost+found
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From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 11:10:17 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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Hi,
  Sorry about the repost, my last post got corrupted.

  I ran into some problems attempting to mount an old partition of my old
filesystem backup on /dev/wd0f. What happened was that, my sd0 ran into
some power problem, and that force me to backup some filesys onto wd0f, and
get a new sd0 (replacement 8-)). However, after I re-installed FreeBSD-1.0.2
and attempt to mount /dev/wd0f on /mnt3, and did a fsck -y to let it run
while I was busy with other things, I didn't expect that actually caused me
a whole lot of problems. WHen I came back to the computer and cd into /mnt3
I only saw lost+found directory!

  I was shocked, and I knew I did something stupid! All my backup are gone,
I only left with some few files in lost+found directory.

  My question is, is it possible to recover those files from the lost+found
directory ? I know the exact full path where the files belong.

  Many thanks in advance and email replies please.

- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong)

  
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- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au