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nelso...@gmail.com  wrote:

>Thanks to all.  I found all the missing folders in lost+found with #inode-n=
>umbers.  It was easy to move those folders into the main directory and rena=
>me to original names as best as I remember.

Be thankful it was just a few folders -- you could have had 22,000+ *files*
in that condition!

>learned about lost+found in this adventure.  I always wondered what it was us=
>ed for.

The more sane equivalent of when DOS used to dump FILECHK.000 FILECHK.001
etc. all over the root of your C:\ Drive.

"Found 1783 lost clusters in 832 chains, convert to files? [Y/N?]"

Bad times ... :(

fsck can check (and repair). It can also sometimes check and destroy, in
its attempt to repair. There are no guarantees, so make backups. Someday
you'll need it.

Now, go and learn about "smartmon tools" and "smartctl" just to check
that the new drive isn't *actually* dying! :)
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