i have a partition that recently suffered a file system corruption. after fsck almost all directories (which contain my files) on the partition were gone, leaving me a big lost+found directory. when i cd into lost+found all i see is directories in the format of #123456. when i cd into these directories i dont see any real file names other than some weird .log files. however if i do a "du -sh *" under the lost+found root i can see some of these numeric directories are of the same size as the directories i want to recover. i just cant find any files within them.
so i tried the mv command mv lost+found/#123456 /original/db1
in this example, #123456 was supposed to be a directory named "db1" which contains some database files. however after this command a FILE named "db1" was created in the original directory. this file is exactly the same size as the old "db1" directory. i just cant do anything with it. cant touch the files within it.
so im seeking help here about the proper way to recover files from lost+found. your advice is greatly appreciated!
