how to identify files in lost+found?

[hike]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Mertens, Bram <mertensb at mazdaeur.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last week 2 disks in the same RAID group of one of our NAS devices crashed
> at the same time.  The hardware supplier was able to recover almost all
> data.
>
> They are unable to tell me which files could not be recovered and have
> referred us to the files in /lost+found:
> [mertensb at defrlpas004 lost+found]$ ls -li
> total 280
> 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root isop   1024 May  5 22:36 #00000004
> 7 -r--r--r-- 1 root isop 262152 Apr 22 17:34 #00000007
> [mertensb at defrlpas004 lost+found]$ file *
> #00000004: directory
> #00000007: data
>
> I tried looking for a file with the same inode without success:
> [mertensb at defrlpas004 lost+found]$ sudo find /srv/etas/ -samefile
> \#00000007 -ls
>     7  272 -r--r--r--   1 root     isop       262152 Apr 22 17:34
> /srv/etas/lost+found/#00000007
>
> How can I find out which directory and which this is?  I am not really
> interested in recovering the files from lost+found but I need to know the
> file name and path so I can ask for a restore from backup.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bram
>
>
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have you used your favorite text editor and looked at the information inside
the file?
that's what we did in the old days.