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<sect1 id="lostfound">
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<title>/lost+found</title>
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<para>
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As was explained earlier during the overview of the FSSTND, Linux should
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always go through a proper shutdown. Sometimes your system might crash
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or a power failure might take the machine down. Either way, at the next
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boot, a lengthy filesystem check (the speed of this check is dependent on
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the type of filesystem that you actually use. ie. ext3 is faster than ext2
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because it is a journalled filesystem) using fsck will be done. Fsck will
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go through the system and try to recover any corrupt files that it finds.
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The result of this recovery operation will be placed in this directory.
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The files recovered are not likely to be complete or make much sense but
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there always is a chance that something worthwhile is recovered. Each
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partition has its own lost+found directory. If you find files in there,
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try to move them back to their original location. If you find something
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like a broken symbolic link to 'file', you have to reinstall the file/s
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from the corresponding RPM, since your file system got damaged so badly
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that the files were mutilated beyond recognition. Below is an example of
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a /lost+found directory. As you can see, the vast majority of files
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contained here are in actual fact sockets. As for the rest of the other
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files they were found to be damaged system files and personal files.
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These files were not able to be recovered.
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</para>
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<para>
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<screen>
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total 368
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110891 Oct 5 14:14 #388200
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 Oct 5 14:14 #388201
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110303 Oct 6 23:09 #388813
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141 Oct 6 23:09 #388814
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110604 Oct 6 23:09 #388815a
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194 Oct 6 23:09 #388816
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srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 6 13:00 #51430
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srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:23 #51433
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-rw------- 1 root root 63 Oct 6 00:23 #51434
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srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 6 13:00 #51436
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srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:23 #51437
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srwx------ 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:23 #51438
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-rw------- 1 root root 63 Oct 6 13:00 #51439
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srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 13:00 #51440
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srwx------ 1 root root 0 Oct 6 13:00 #51442
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-rw------- 1 root root 63 Oct 6 23:09 #51443
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srwx------ 1 root root 0 Oct 6 10:40 #51445
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srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 6 23:09 #51446
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srwx------ 1 root root 0 Oct 6 23:09 #51448
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</screen>
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</para>
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</sect1>
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