Hosed ext3 superblock -- partial success, but about those nameless mysql files...

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 06/02/2010 01:15 PM, Ling Cheung wrote:
> Well, I followed Charles's advice, and the result was about the same as my previous attempt, but this time I looked into that lost+found directory a bit more closely.  I had overlooked the fact that some of these files are intact directories.  I seem to have more usable data than I realized.
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> I've found some of the most important stuff.  I'll reinstall Ubuntu on a new hard drive and try to salvage the data I want.
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> Among the evidently less usable data is a bunch of mysql files with missing file names (that is, with names like #15901557).  I know the file type, thanks to the file command.  I think that these are from mythtv, since that's the only database I seem to be missing.  It would be nice to recover my mythtv database for a few reasons, if I can do so without too much hassle.
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> Is there a clever way to determine which file is which?
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Lost+found is a place where files go when they lose their directories. 
The #15901557should be the inode number of that file. Directories 
essentially contain the file names and their inode #.  Directories are 
files too, and they can be grep'd. I haven't recovered files like this 
for a long time.

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