From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 11 20:11:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA21908 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dimensional.com (root@blackhole.dimensional.com [208.206.176.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21901 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flatland.dimensional.com (root@flatland.dimensional.com [208.206.176.24]) by mail.dimensional.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA29086 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:11:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: from imagination.org (p05.pm3-2.pm.dimcom.net [207.204.44.70]) by flatland.dimensional.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA20501 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:11:11 -0600 (MDT) Posted-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:11:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <33EFD599.41C67EA6@dimensional.com> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:16:41 -0600 From: Gerard Giamberdine X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: lost+found (+hope?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm not quite sure what led to this, but I had a bunch of files (mainly DOS) zipped up and sitting in a directory on my FreeBSD drive - then one day I noticed a '/usr/local/lost+found' with a bunch of files in it with numbers for names. Eventually I figured out that these were the files I had in the archive directory, only now many were about 25% or so smaller in size. Under DOS, pkunzip is unable to extract these files saying they're corrupted. Is there any hope of repairing these files? Also, I'm curious how this lost+found directory works and what condition(s) might have caused (just) these files to be placed there. Thanks for your help! Gerard