Long story short: I should have had a backup.
Now I found myself using TestDisk to restore my entire operating system. However, it's taking a very long time to move along - at about 22 million files, I'm wondering at this point whether it's just taking a while to recover all of those darn temp files, or if it is hanging up. It still has not moved on past /var/lib.
The main errors in testdisk.log look like these:
Can't create file /media/ubuntu/Recovery/var/lib/dpkg/info/libtasn1-3:i386.shlibs/urandom/X11/pt/man5/netcat.1.gz/ncurses-bin/.Greek-TerminusBold20x10.psf.gz.Ct4hLl/Greek-Terminus22x11.psf.gz/PT154.so/lib/Blk/Suppleme.pl.dpkg-new/mmu.h.dpkg-new: Not a directory
Can't create file /media/ubuntu/Recovery/var/lib/dpkg/info/libtasn1-3:i386.shlibs/urandom/X11/pt/man5/netcat.1.gz/ncurses-bin/.Greek-TerminusBold20x10.psf.gz.Ct4hLl/Greek-Terminus22x11.psf.gz/PT154.so/lib/Blk/Suppleme.pl.dpkg-new/dma-mapping.h.dpkg-new: Not a directory
...
Can't create file /media/ubuntu/Recovery/var/lib/dpkg/info/libtasn1-3:i386.shlibs/urandom/X11/ja/tzdata.postrm/powerpc/include/asm.dpkg-new/scatterlist.h.dpkg-new/home/richie/.icedtea/cache/2/http/arcanists14.jagex.com/74/Microsoft.NET/50/partial-i386/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Tortola: Is a directory
Or these:
ext2fs_read_inode(ino=825254982) failed with error 2133571369.
ext2fs_read_inode(ino=825254969) failed with error 2133571369.
ext2fs_read_inode(ino=825254982) failed with error 2133571369.
ext2fs_read_inode(ino=825254982) failed with error 2133571369.
ext2fs_read_inode(ino=825254982) failed with error 2133571369.
ext2fs_read_inode(ino=825254969) failed with error 2133571369.
My question, though, boils down to this: Is it normal to be seeing as many as 22 million files in the filesystem as a normal Linux user?
