hi ya aaron
from my little world.... files dont disappear unless you delete it
- put samba back the way it was... or recreate the account ??
( caution.. am assuming that creating accounts in windoze
( doesnt wipe out its old files/directories
(
( creating new users will copy over new set of config files
- when you write/save files... where did youput it ??
c: or on the shared disks( linux )
> Fixed the problems on the windows box.
- what do you mean by that ??
- if the files was stored on the linux side... its still there...
just not visible to other windoze users ??
- should be visible to root on linux
c ya
alvin
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Aaron Wrasman wrote:
> 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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