I've done some research already and I hope someone will have a better
answer than I currently have so far.
The situation:
I misconfigured samba to point at /home/accountname for roaming
profiles.
It has been this way for over a year.
No one noticed. I'm the only person that uses linux directly.
To troubleshoot a problem on a Windows 98 box, I logged in as
myself on the win98 box.
It built me a profile and pushed it too the Linux box. It
seemed to be taking a really log time but it finally finished.
Fixed the problems on the windows box.
Later when I go to use my account on the linux things are all
messed up.
First thing I notice, all my mail files are gone. ( 7 years
worth.)
Then I notice alot directories I haven't used in years were
updated today at about the same time.
I finally do a
find /home/accountname -type f -print
less than 100 files come back. Almost all of them are dot-files.
I figure umount the filesystem and run debugfs and recover the
files. (i.e. lsdel)
Second problem. No deleted inodes exist after April 22, 2002.
I moved everything over to ext3 about that time.
Checking web pages. It appears you can't use the lsdel
command in debugsfs to find deleted files.
Current Answer:
Find every "free" inode on at 27 Gig partition and look for
strings that I know should be in particular files. Then try to
reconstruct the files by hand.
Does anyone have better ideas? And no, I don't have a recent backup.
Last time I changed the hardware I never got the tape drive reconnected
to the system. So last backup is over 9 months ago. At the time I wasn't
concerned, the old system had been on raid and the new one was also.
So any ideas?
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