On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 12:06, KBB0927@xxxxxx wrote: > I know this may be OT for this list, but can someone help me? I inadvertantly deleted a user that was connected to my public directory > on my home server via samba(that user was me) and it wiped out all of my > directory and data that did not have root as the owner. It is a reiserfs. > I need help, info, on how to recover these directories and data. > > I had vitally important data. My backup is far too old...I know always > have a good backup... but I got caught this time without one. sorry I cannot help much. Just one word of advice: "remount the filesystem read-only *now*" (if it's not too late) maybe have a look at www.phlak.org (I discovered it yesterday), it has a lot of security and system analysis tools pc -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list