On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Salvadesswaran P.S. > <salvadesswa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running a Fedora 12 - Windows 7 (For Class 12 Turbo C :( ) dual >> boot on my laptop. >> I have a local mirror of the Fedora 12 repo,but all of a sudden most >> rpms became 0 sized files, >> viewed from Fedora as well as Windows. A few more home videos have also been >> subject to this attack, and I'm unable to recover them. > > Boot with a LiveCD and what do you see? > >> Is there any possible way to recover them, either from Linux or >> Windows (I prefer the former), >> or are the files gone away forever? > > You can try "fsck --f /dev/<partition>" >
Live CDs too have the same problem. I tried dozens of them, including System Rescue distros, but I have not had any clue so far. I'll try fsck when I get to the machine later today. Thank you. -- Salvadesswaran Srinivasan http://www.twitter.com/salva_eswar http://queasyquagmire.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
