Unfortunately the owner and mode information is vital information about the files.. It's like asking "i just rm'ed this letter -- how can I recover paragraph #3?". You should restore from backup.
-derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Greetings, > > I've got a little problem regarding my OpenAFS server. I have migrated my > server onto a new machine. For this purpose I had to move the /vicep* data to > a temporary storage device. > > What I didn't know - until now - was that the raw AFS data files rely on file > permissions and ownership information. Thus I haven't checked the correctness > of the permissions after copying the data to the other harddisk. > > Now I've still got the correct owner/group/world permissions for the files > but the ownership information is gone. It's all owned by root:root now. > > As a result I can't access all AFS volumes on the new OpenAFS server any > more. Only a few are accessible. The others are marked for salvage but > salvaging fails. > > So my question is if there is any possibility of recovering / fixing the > ownership information of the raw AFS filesystem structure and where I could > get information about how this file hierarchy on /vicep* is organised. > > Of course I've backuped all relevant data otherwise already. But I'd really > like to keep the whole AFS volume structure intact. > > Thank you for any suggestions, > > Matthias Gerstner > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
