From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 01:18:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21633 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 01:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peacock.tci.com (coral.tci.com [198.178.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21628 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 01:18:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@tci.com) Received: from oreo.tci.com (co-chris-pc01.tci.com [172.18.27.65]) by peacock.tci.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id CAA04436; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:18:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from tci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oreo.tci.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA01031; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:17:55 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36A1AAC3.7EC95E2C@tci.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:17:55 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis Organization: Tele-Communications, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Busarow CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When stuff is in the lost+found directory References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If you're unlucky, the files themselves will have numeric names. Fixing > this really depends on how badly you need to do it, in your case, reinstall. LOL! Yeah, I'm unlucky. I hadn't noticed this when I initially wrote that question, but a few of those 100 entries are directories; these directories (as you said) have files in 'em with real names. Names like "bookmarks.html" and "Mac.pm". Big woop there, huh? There are two files in the top level lost+found directory that are symlinks to English names, e.g. #206393 -> libdecrypt.so.2 and #206397 -> libcipher.so.2 but that's it - all other files have #xxxxxx names. What does that fixit option in /stand/sysinstall do? I haven't been able to get it to run yet but am wondering what it'd do if I pursued it. I'm just playing at this point, anyway, basically just learning on a system where it really doesn't matter what I break. > If you want to pursue the latter situation, nm, strings and file run > against the files plus a working system to check against can get you > going. I once had to do this via voice phone and it was not fun :) > (BTW, they did have backups but the drive had died and no one noticed > the error messages) Gawd, sounds like a PITA. Ex: # nm "#206451" /usr/libexec/elf/nm: a.out: No such file or directory # file "#206451" "206451: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969, os: Unix strings shows absolutely nothing useful without a working system to compare the output to. Ah, well.... I made copies of anything I think I want to keep and at this point am just playing around. It's a good way to learn.... Thanks for your time, Dan. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message