Recursively checking file headers to recover files

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techiem2

Mar 30, 2008
2:42 PM
Ok, I'm looking at the old corrupted directory structure from when my fileserver controller failed.
So what I'm wondering is, is there a way to have a script walk the directory structure and check the file headers and then move them appropriately?
I.E. have a Pics directory, and anything with a jpeg or orf fileheader would be moved there, etc.
I'd like to recover the pictures (at least) if possible, but I really don't have the time to check 25GB worth of files by hand.
Any suggestions?
pat

Mar 30, 2008
3:17 PM
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techiem2

Mar 30, 2008
5:15 PM
The problem with that is that it wants to probe a raw device to find data.
I have what was readable after fscking the disk the data was originally on.
The data I have was copied off of the original disk to one of my partitions.
So I don't think it will work (I'd probably have to dump what I have copied to an empty disk and try running it on that).
Though maybe I'll give it a run anyway if I can dig out a spare disk large enough to dump the stuff to.

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