Help!!

 

I recently discovered that the share which contains all my music files has disappeared, presumed deleted.

 

I recently upgraded to version 5.0 beta14 and it may have happened then, although I didn't deliberately change any shares.  I did run the utility "New Permissions" a couple of times as Plex wasn't recognizing some folders but that is all.  I haven't swapped any disks but I have added a cache drive and parity shows now errors.  The syslog shows nothing other than a million "bad method" errors which I have never got around to eliminating.

 

I have done a find search via telnet and none of the files, or the folder appear.

 

My knowledge of the unix/linux language is extremely limited and I would really appreciate some help before I start the process of re-ripping my 200+ CDs again.

 

That would make for a tedious Christmas.  Any suggestions very much appreciated.

 

Thanks fellas

 

 

 

First, for anyone to help you, you  will need to post a syslog.  See here for instructions:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9880.0

Well I thought I had mentioned that the syslog shows nothing but an unrelated error.

 

Here it is, though, for completeness.

syslog.txt.zip

Help!!

 

I recently discovered that the share which contains all my music files has disappeared, presumed deleted.

 

I recently upgraded to version 5.0 beta14 and it may have happened then, although I didn't deliberately change any shares.  I did run the utility "New Permissions" a couple of times as Plex wasn't recognizing some folders but that is all.  I haven't swapped any disks but I have added a cache drive and parity shows now errors.  The syslog shows nothing other than a million "bad method" errors which I have never got around to eliminating.

 

I have done a find search via telnet and none of the files, or the folder appear.

 

My knowledge of the unix/linux language is extremely limited and I would really appreciate some help before I start the process of re-ripping my 200+ CDs again.

 

That would make for a tedious Christmas.  Any suggestions very much appreciated.

 

Thanks fellas

 

Just to be sure:

 

telnet into your system and do:

 

cd /mnt/user/

ls

 

Do you see your share ?

 

If not do"

 

cd /mnt/disk1/

ls

 

Do you see your share ?

 

If not then do the last for all your disks (disk1 to diskX)

 

If you do not see your share (or possibly a weird name you do not recognize) then the filestructure is gone and chances of finding your data back are extremely limited..

That's what I was afraid of.

 

No, the share "Music" no longer seems to exist.

 

I just wondered whether it might be possible to recover if the data hasn't physically been overwritten yet.

Make sure nothing gets written to your array any more, as this will possibly overwrite data that could be recovered... There are possibilitiles of recovering REISERFS data after deletion, I cannot help however on that specifically, others might on the forum. Await there advice before trying stuff yourself.

 

http://antrix.net/posts/2004/reiserfs-undeletedata-recovery-howto/

Thanks Helmonder.  Will do.