fsck errors and a lot of files in /lost+found

[Jonathan S Billings]

On 11/17/2010 07:37 AM, ESGLinux wrote:
> Thanks, I can see some files testing first with file command.
>
>
> I´m looking for usefull files there but some I don´t know the right place I
> have to copy (for example there is a lot of files that are emails but I
> don´t know the mailbox where I have to copy)
>
> is there any way to know the original location of the files?

No, other from using the context you discover from 'file' or 'less'.

That's why the directory is called lost+found -- fsck doesn't know where 
they're supposed to go.

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Jonathan Billings <jsbillin at umich.edu>
College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support