On 2019-11-04 22:46, n952162 wrote: > Ah, I didn't know that about running fsck multiple times - I remember > after doing my home directory - the more important one - it did say > "file system modified". I don't remember if the root fsck said that, > though. But it looks like I'm going to have re-install gentoo, in any > case, because virtualbox is all sitting in lost+found.
A tip: whatever the virtues of journaling FS, it doesn't hurt to keep around a recovery tool along the lines of app-admin/testdisk. It saved my a*e earlier this year when I carelessly scribbled over my archive drive with thousands of pictures. I'd skipped doing ls -l /dev/disk/by-id and thought the output of my dd command was going to a thumb drive I'd just inserted. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
