What operating system and file system? Can I guess Linux/ext2?
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Christian von Kietzell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a serious problem. After a horrible filesystem crash the only thing
> left of my database are some files in /lost+found (with changed names!). Is
> there a way to recover the data from those files? I managed to identify the
> files belonging to PostgreSQL (unfortunately, these are part of more than one
> database (think of template0/1...)), but I don't know which file belongs to
> which table.
> I've searched the web for recovery tools but none of them seems capable of
> what I want to do. Is there any documentation on the structure of PostgreSQL's
> database files?
> If this is the wrong place to ask, please tell me where I might get help.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
> P.S. I'm not subscribed to the list and therefore would appreciate direct
> answers.
>
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