xfs home directory went south

[Mumia W.]

David Fox wrote:
> Guys, I have a real problem.
> [...]
> I tried to remount it a few times, and did an xfs_repair -L on the 
> filesystem and it seems to have brought some of it back, but not all. 
> I was able to bring back most of it from my month old backup of home 
> that I still have on another HD. But much of the filesystem seems to 
> be gone [...]

This was discussed recently on this list (I think). Try 'foremost'; it 
can retrieve some files independently of the filesystem.