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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users lost+found Post 18396 by killerserv on Wednesday 27th of March 2002 11:57:24 PM
Old 03-28-2002
If you are repairing a filesystem, you must run fsck on the unmounted filesystem. If you are repairing the root filesystem, run fsck while the system is in single-user mode and no other user processes are running. After repairing root, you must bring the system down immediately, without running sync, and reboot it.

Although it is technically feasible to repair files that are damaged and that fsck says you should remove, it is usually not practical.The best insurance against significant loss of data is frequent backups. If you do not have write permission to the filesystem fsck is checking, fsck will report problems but not give you an opportunity to fix them.

When fsck encounters a file that has lost its link to its filename, fsck asks you whether you want to reconnect it. If you choose to reconnect it and fix the problem, the file is put in a directory called lost+found, and it is given its inode number as a name.

try ufsrestore command to restore you data back from lost+found. I havent done with that command before. Maybe other have some idea of the syntax..
 

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SYSTEMD-FSCK@.SERVICE(8)				       systemd-fsck@.service					  SYSTEMD-FSCK@.SERVICE(8)

NAME
systemd-fsck@.service, systemd-fsck-root.service, systemd-fsck - File system checker logic SYNOPSIS
systemd-fsck@.service systemd-fsck-root.service /lib/systemd/systemd-fsck DESCRIPTION
systemd-fsck@.service and systemd-fsck-root.service are services responsible for file system checks. They are instantiated for each device that is configured for file system checking. systemd-fsck-root.service is responsible for file system checks on the root file system, but only if the root filesystem was not checked in the initramfs. systemd-fsck@.service is used for all other file systems and for the root file system in the initramfs. These services are started at boot if passno in /etc/fstab for the file system is set to a value greater than zero. The file system check for root is performed before the other file systems. Other file systems may be checked in parallel, except when they are on the same rotating disk. systemd-fsck does not know any details about specific filesystems, and simply executes file system checkers specific to each filesystem type (/sbin/fsck.*). This helper will decide if the filesystem should actually be checked based on the time since last check, number of mounts, unclean unmount, etc. If a file system check fails for a service without nofail, emergency mode is activated, by isolating to emergency.target. KERNEL COMMAND LINE
systemd-fsck understands these kernel command line parameters: fsck.mode= One of "auto", "force", "skip". Controls the mode of operation. The default is "auto", and ensures that file system checks are done when the file system checker deems them necessary. "force" unconditionally results in full file system checks. "skip" skips any file system checks. fsck.repair= One of "preen", "yes", "no". Controls the mode of operation. The default is "preen", and will automatically repair problems that can be safely fixed. "yes" will answer yes to all questions by fsck and "no" will answer no to all questions. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), fsck(8), systemd-quotacheck.service(8), fsck.btrfs(8), fsck.cramfs(8), fsck.ext4(8), fsck.fat(8), fsck.hfsplus(8), fsck.minix(8), fsck.ntfs(8), fsck.xfs(8) systemd 237 SYSTEMD-FSCK@.SERVICE(8)
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