Well just like I thought, it will take a miracle to undelete those inboxes. I feel sorry for that Tech Mark, it his ass who's on the line and to make things worst the hardware is about to fail, imagine a read speed of only 815KB/sec based on hdparm. Oh well...
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Mark David Dumlao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I worked with Jan on this mail server before, and I know that tech. > > Sorry Jan, wracked my head over this one too. > > Mail is particularly hard to recover via filesystem undeletion, since the > mails are scattered as individual files in a directory tree. Deleting > removes all hierarchy information from the files, so what you'll end up with > is a bunch of nameless, orphaned text files - possibly hundreds, scattered > in random locations through the disk. There probably is no way to tell which > is which unless you do a system down and a manual filesystem scan for > orphaned inode text that have the email addresses in question. I don't even > know how to do that, and even then, there's no guarantee to recover. > > I'm not sure if a solution is possible, although that assistant deserves > all the swear words he could get. I remember being particularly strict on > him to always get permission on questionable actions... > -- > thing. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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