Thread: Problem with FSCK
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justmemory is offline justmemory
2012-02-07 , 10:33
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#21
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
The default setup in Maemo for the MyDocs folder in /home/user is not very robust against misuse. In the not so rare case of severe file system corruption, where the device is not mounted at all, the folder will get used by the Maemo system instead of the large partition, which should be mounted there.This is the right place for this folder, this should be empty by default, but i would make sure it really is empty...
Thats strange, you should only see the content of the MyDocs partition. What is inside the MyDocs folder?Do not mount the device, try to get an image of the raw device, therefore from the /dev/disk/by-label/@ot\x20a\x20boot\x20d device.
thanks for the help, michaaa62...! I feel like I'm getting nowhere... (:

I connected my device to my laptop (Ubuntu) with BackupMenu running and made the image of the dev/disk/by-label/@ot\x20a\x20boot\x20d to my laptop. so now I've got the "N900.dd.img" file. I mounted it (mount -o loop N900.dd.img /home/my_user_name/n900) but testdisk does not see it. I tried to mount it some other places (/mnt, /dev/disk), but no use... in midnight commander (and in nautilus) I can see the mounted device and its content. even the other folders that I created before the fsck deletion (and I can reach the contents of these folders - for example I created a folder for python, for R statistics). but I always see/saw them, so it is not a surprise I think.
all my settings, all my other files remained the same - all diary events, all contacts, messages, ringtones, alarms, etc. just lost the contents of (or access to) .documents, .videos and .sounds...

o, and another thing: I ran GParted (couriosity...), and it says, that the 27 Gig partition is "unreservable", the swap and the 2 Gig partition is OK...

when I fsck my n900, it says:

dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
/dev/mmcblk0p1: 143 files, 33319/442337 clusters

I think this amount of files (143) is not enough for my original .documents, etc. - it is the "new MyDocs" folder contents: .images, R folder, python folder (I store nothing else on my phone), I assume. but I experienced another very interesting thing: when I browse images (I mean: File Manager -> Nokia N900 -> Images), and see one of the original image (for example "digital_nature1"), then press the "back arrow key" on the top right, it goes back to "Images" folder (of course), and when I press another "back arrow key", it goes back to "All images" (as always, of course), and the deleted images appear for only 5 seconds (even the scanned books, album wrappers for mp3s, etc - and I can scroll them), but when I try to access them, they "are no longer available". but the "All images" folder "knows" (I mean it writes this on the middle top), that there are 1369 images there (or was there...) - somewhere in the device, but cannot gain access to them...

now I don't know what to do... it seems like my .documents, .videos and .sounds folders are soooo hidden (or cannot be mounted at all) that they really are lost...
Last edited by justmemory; 2012-02-07 at 11:00.