not really linux but is very related

[nathaniel]

well I listen to my mp3 in linux xmms to be exact and linux took a dump twice and I ran some fscking and all is well but windows picked up that my d/program files/ winamp/music <mp3 dir> was currupt and converted all the mp3s (6gigs worth) to file*.chk, how do I reconver these files back to MP3? There has to be a way to fix restore them unless windows just creates files from lost segments as a momento of wasted space. Please let me know, as a world w/out mp3s is a very quite one. . .

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[bdg1983]

I'm not sure it there is a proper way to recover the mp3's. Have you tried just renaming one of the filename.chk to filename.mp3 and see if it will play?

[nathaniel]

nope it will not play and amazingly enough it didn't ask to make a undo disk, which is what it normally does.

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[bdg1983]

Which one to blame? The one that actually corrupted the mp3's or the one that tried to fix the corruption?

Any luck with web searches or Microsoft's knowledgebase?

[nathaniel]

I'm gonna blame the win OS on this one, for
1. not asking to make a undo disk even though the option FOR it was checked and renaming the file name file*.chk instead of just moving them to the / partition, and
2. on Linux it crappy r/w handling after/during the lock up.

After serveral hours and lots of M Dew all is fixed minus the one it was playing during the lockup. just a trip to audio gal. will fix that.
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[Malakin]

There are no write operations going on when playing mp3s (obviously), so if you were playing mp3s in xmms and linux crashed there's absolutely no way linux could of corrupted them unless there's more to the story...

[deadlock]

That's a strange one. I reckon fsck made some changes to the filesystem and altered the FAT tables on your Windows partition (I presume you had this mounted in Linux ?) - when you ran scandisk in Windows it couldn't see the files, but could see their fragments and converted them to .chk files. Scandisk only creates an undo disk when it is performing certain operations - altering the FAT tables, I think - converting lost file fragments to files is not one of them.

I suspect that you had 'automatically fix errors' enabled ? In which case it will automatically convert fragments to files. The alternatives (presented when 'automatically...' is disabled) are to delete the fragments or do nothing, neither of which would allow you to retrieve your files.

None of which explains how you're going to get your mp3s back. I suspect that there isn't a way, but hopefully someone will prove me wrong.

Is it possible that fsck had some problem with the filenames ? Perhaps they were too long or something ?

[ 05 November 2001: Message edited by: wonk ]