Re: [Jfs-discussion] how to recover some missing files?

[Dave K. <sh...@au...>]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 11:32 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> I had a situation on my workstation - all filesystems are JFS - I was
> deleting a large number (>100.000) of files on my /home partition, and
> somehow it got into a hang.  I ended up having to reset it, normally
> not a big deal. 
> However, at startup, I then manually ran fsck on my /home partition, it
> reported no errors, all fine.  Except my firefox directory/profile with
> e.g. bookmarks and settings now appears to be gone.  Do I have any
> chance of recovering that?  

Odd.  I wouldn't expect a populated directory to disappear with all its
contents.  Any chance that some of the files from that directory are in
lost+found?  (I'm expecting that you already looked for that, but I
don't have any other ideas.)
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center