From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on
Fernando Peral P�rez wrote:
> hi
>
> i've a disk with 80G of files that suddenly has only 12G (i don't know
> what i did). I've a lot of directorys that have gone empty, but the
> directory structure is all okay. i'm looking for a way to recover the
> files. I've read that on reiserfs i can do it by reiserfsck with
> --rebuildtree, but i see that this way will let all the files in the
> directory lost+found and with "numerical names", not with their original
> names. Is there a way to recover files in their correct directory and
> with their correct name. i have not touch the filesystem since it was
> deleted.
>
> tia


Before letting ReiserFS touch it, can you make a disk image somewhere else
using 'dd'? I've had real problems with it when a drive in a RAID set started
failing, and couldn't even backup the remaining files without carefully,
carefully excluding the files it would hang on.

Because reiserfs reiserfs is *AWFUL* about this. Much like Hans Reiser's wife,
the files are likely to disappear, last seen just before being visited by this
command. And without the disk image, you're unlikely to find the car with the
missing front seat. (No, I'm not kidding: the author of reiserfs is on trial
for the murder of his wife.)