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["P.T. (Nevada)" <nevada@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I had a system freeze and had to reboot the computer. When the
> > computer came back up, I was missing some sub-directories of the
> > directory /pictures. Using Suse 8.1.
> >
> > I tried chmod +x and it did not help. I have also tried chown and
> > chgrp without sucess.
> >
> > Here is a copy of doing a dir of /pictures. I am also unable to access
> > a couple of directories under /pictures/raw, which gives the same 
> > permission denied.
> >
> > ls: kids: permission denied
> > ls: download: permission denied
> > total 1
> > drwxr-xr-x    8(user)     users    168  2003-07-13  17:12  .
> > drwxr-xr-x    29 root      root        688 2003-07-13  17.19  ..
> > drwxr-xr-x    10 (user)  users     248  2003-01-22  19:54  numbered
> > drwxr-xr-x     12 (user)  users    368  2003-01-22  19:44  raw
> > drwxr-xr-x       2  (user)  users    528  2003-07-13  13:56  temp
> >
> > I am not sure, but I am thinking that the  '.' and '..' are the 
> > directories I am unable to access.
> >
> > If I try to create a new directory of kids/download, it gives me
> > 'access denied to /pictures/kids/download.
> >
> > Anyone had an idea how I can get these directory back so I can access
> > them?
>  
>
> The . is standard Unix notation for the current directory, and .. is the
> notation for the parent directory (except the root directory .. points
> to itself). 
>
> Every file system has a lost+found directory. if your disk was corrupted
> , fsck may have placed these into lost+found. 
> I suggest you su to root.
> cd /pictures
> find . -type d -ls
> This will give you a recursive listing of all the directories under
> pictures. Certainly a chmod of +x and +r should make those directories
> accessable. 
> I also suggest that you shut down to single user mode and run a manual
> fsck just to make sure things are ok. 
>
> -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix user group 
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Thanks Jerry for the suggestions.  I have tried all you suggested and 
those others that I could think of.
Chown, chmod, fsck, etc did not work. I still cannot access those 
directories.  Looks like they are just lost to me.  

I'm thinking that the only way would be to go into the disk structure 
itself and correct the problem. I don't know of a linux program that 
would do this tho. Something like the old Norton Utilities could do.

Thanks for the help
Paul T.