[Sheflug] Help required - lost files

[Robert E B Holland BEng CEng FIEE <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last night my machine (SUSE 7.3) died & had some fsck failures on start-up. I 
am not too familiar with this situation (the box has run for 3 months 
without a reboot since I converted from Windows to Linux!) but I seem to have 
lost my kmail inbox, which is a bit annoying. Fortunately, most of my email 
is directed to other files as it arrives & these are OK, but it would be nice 
to recover the inbox as I had flagged some things for further work.

The only thing in lost+found seems to be a pdf file which I had just 
downloaded - though this is unreadable by Acrobat. The information reported 
by debugfs seems to confirm this, but given my inbox is also missing I am not 
sure whether I can trust this report & there may be other stuff which has 
gone astray.

Is there anything likely to be left of the inbox which I could recover?

I have also discovered that during installation my /home partition was set up 
as ext2 (obviously my mistake as I had intended to use reiser). Is there a 
simple way to change this & is this recommended?

Thanks for your help in advance - learning all the time!

Bob Holland


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