Re: [SLUG] Lost + found.

2007-01-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/01/07, john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No luck, Tony. Just tells me there is no such file. I wonder if I may You mean that "fsck" tells you this? If so then you gave it the wrong device name. What does "cd ; df ." show? --Amos have accidentally reformatted it when I was using

Re: [SLUG] Lost + found.

2007-01-24 Thread john gibbons
No luck, Tony. Just tells me there is no such file. I wonder if I may have accidentally reformatted it when I was using qtparted earlier, losing my files in the process. Thanks for the suggestion. John. Tony Sceats wrote: have you tried fsck'ing it? try inserting the drive, unmounting it (i

[SLUG] Lost + found.

2007-01-21 Thread john gibbons
I have a flash drive that will no longer open and shows only a 'Lost + found' file response. I tried opening it as root via the GUI but it says it is empty. Have I lost all my files or is there some way around this? Any help appreciated even if it is bad news. John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linu

Re: [SLUG] lost+found

2001-01-25 Thread Terry Collins
Alex Salmon wrote: > > hi > > that brings me to my next problem.. they are a mixture on mp3s and > other binary files.. and there are *lots* > > is there no record of *saved* files? Yep, it is called a "Backup" I recommend tape if you have bulk, or burn a CD if it comes in <600Mb chunks and o

Re: [SLUG] lost+found

2001-01-25 Thread Alex Salmon
hi that brings me to my next problem.. they are a mixture on mp3s and other binary files.. and there are *lots* is there no record of *saved* files? thanks alex On Friday 26 January 2001 01:23, you wrote: > > > > i am sort of assuming that they contain my lost data.. if so the > > question i

Re: [SLUG] lost+found

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
> i am sort of assuming that they contain my lost data.. if so the question > is how do i reclaim them. Open them up, work out what they are, and move them back. :) fscked hard drives are a pain, hey? - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ --

[SLUG] lost+found

2001-01-25 Thread Alex Salmon
hi all I have a bit of a problem.. i ws getting some ext2 errors when mounting one of my partitions and i neglected to do anything then tonite i did an fsck /dev/hda2 i spent about an hours saying yes to fix the thousends of errors and it all seemed to go fine. I then re mounted the partition