Rescuing files from lost+found

By Sandra Henry-Stocker

The lost+found directory included in (Unix) file systems is usually empty. Only used when fsck doesn't know what to do with files that have lost their place in the file system, they stand as a temporary holding place for those rare instances in which fsck can't put everything back together after file systems have become corrupt in some way. Moving the files back to their proper places in the OS and renaming them is largely an exercise in recognizing them and issuing the proper mkdir and mv commands to rebuild the contexts in which they previously resided. ...continue reading 'Rescuing files from lost+found'