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#7 directories turned into files!

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nobody
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2006-11-08
2006-06-03
Anonymous
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i'm having a bit of a panic here, i just mounted up a
partition and a number of directories have turned into
normal files. is there a way to manually make them back
into directories somehow?

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  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    By the way it's a data drive, I would just like the files
    back. could they all be dumped to a lost+found or something?

     
  • Matt Wu

    Matt Wu - 2006-11-08

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    Are the directories are symbolic links ? if so, Ext2Fsd will treat them as files, it does
    not support symlinks.

    You'd better use debugfs or other ext2/ext3 editing tools to do the recovery. Change the
    type of the inodes to directory, then check the meta data is correct or not.

     
  • Matt Wu

    Matt Wu - 2006-11-08
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