[SunHELP] how to recover from lost+found

Can't "cat"? 

Do you get lots of junk to the screen?  If so, then the file is probably a
binary file (executable) fragment and pretty much unrecoverable.  The
append/rename procedure is usually only successful on text stuff.

You can use "file" to try to identify contents, ie:
  $ file /etc/passwd
  /etc/passwd:    ascii text

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: lee [mailto:chayul2001 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:22 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sunhelp
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] how to recover from lost+found


thank you for the reply.
how do i look at the contents? i cannot "cat" it.
~lee
--- "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson at experianems.com>
wrote:
> The best you can do is look at the contents and
> attempt to identify it.  If
> it's text, etc. then you can append it and rename it
> appropriately to create
> a new file.
> 
> Things in lost+found are found data fragments (found
> with fsck) that are
> moved here rather than simply discarding them.  
> 
> It's extremely common to just delete them.
> 
> -M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lee [mailto:chayul2001 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:10 PM
> To: sunhelp
> Subject: [SunHELP] how to recover from lost+found
> 
> 
> hello,
> 
> I need someone's help.
> Under my lost+found directory, I see a bunch of
> numbers
> 
> bash-2.03# ls
> #000013  #000018  #000033  #000039  #000043  #000047
> 
> #000063  #044800
> #000014  #000022  #000034  #000040  #000044  #000048
> 
> #011200  #056000
> #000015  #000026  #000037  #000041  #000045  #000049
> 
> #022400  #067200
> #000016  #000028  #000038  #000042  #000046  #000050
> 
> #033600
> 
> can someone help me figure out how to recover the
> files
> 
> ~lee
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