SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

Mike Wright mike.wright at mailinator.com
Fri Jul 6 22:44:46 UTC 2012


On 07/06/2012 03:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Mike Wright wrote:
>
>> After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics:
>> the entire contents of the /boot partition had disappeared.
>>
>> On a hunch I "tree"ed lost+found and found many leafless branches but
>> one that had the entire contents of /boot.  Copied everything back to
>> /boot and did another fsck.  Clean!
>
> What does it mean to "tree" lost+found?
>

"tree" is a command that shows the contents of any directory, its 
subdirectories, and any files they contain.  Very useful.



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