[mythtv-users] recovery of files and filenames from ext4 partition

[Mark Perkins]

>> On 3 Feb 2015, at 11:30 am, "Gary Buhrmaster" <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> ....
>> Rebooted, and got the standard Ubuntu file system check which I let do it
>> its thing (bad idea but too late now) and everything came back up normally -
>> except the one recording drive has no files. It is correctly partitioned
>> (ext4) but is file-less / directory-less. No backups (it's just TV). Gparted
>> is showing the correct % full but there are no files / directories listed.
> 
> If the fsck completed, and the % full is (about) right, did
> you check the lost+found directory?  Whether anything
> there is (usefully) retrievable depends on the details of
> the repair.
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Thanks Gary, no I didn't look there but that is exactly where the files were. In so far that is where they appear, as you say the usability of what is there is yet to be determined. Testdisk (as recommended by Doug) is having a go at it now. Standard operations like ls failed / errored.