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by allquantor
07 Jun 2018, 19:25
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: ext4 broken by fsck -y; recovery of structure possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 3075

Re: ext4 broken by fsck -y; recovery of structure possible?

Hi,

after letting fsck run for a good while the (hidden) folder lost+found appeared and contained everything I was looking for. I was a bit afraid at first that fsck could make things even worse. But after reading up a lot about it and reading your post I just tried it.

Thank you very much for ...
by allquantor
29 May 2018, 16:42
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: ext4 broken by fsck -y; recovery of structure possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 3075

ext4 broken by fsck -y; recovery of structure possible?

Hi there,

I have a 5TB USB3 drive, which recently came up with some FS trouble. The drive is new so I didn't think of it much, and ran fsck -y on it to get it back to work again. Only now the drive shows up containing nothing. The Gnome Disk-Manager still shows the drive as 64% full which would be ...