[SunHELP] how to recover from lost+found

It doesn't like the "#" sign - it thinks it's a comment.

Try using a wildcard:
  file "*13*    
or
  file "?000013"

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: lee [mailto:chayul2001 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:38 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; sunhelp
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] how to recover from lost+found


i did and here's the result.

bash-2.03# pwd
/opt/dba/lost+found
bash-2.03# ls -l | head
total 420
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle   dba        25700 Jul 15  1997
#000013
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle   dba         2468 Jul 15  1997
#000014
drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   dba          512 Apr  2 09:33
#000015
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle   dba        60328 Jul 15  1997
#000016
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle   dba        28912 Jul 15  1997
#000018
drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   dba          512 Apr  5  1996
#000022
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle   dba        15668 Jul 15  1997
#000026
drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   dba         1536 Apr  1 17:52
#000028
-r--r--r--   1 oracle   dba         5669 Jun 26  1997
#000033
bash-2.03# file #000016
usage: file [-h] [-m mfile] [-f ffile] file ...
       file [-h] [-m mfile] -f ffile
       file -c [-m mfile]
bash-2.03#

--- "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson at experianems.com>
wrote:
> 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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