On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 05:30:36AM +0200, Serhan Danis wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to get some advice from you about some lost files. A user has > indeliberatly deleted some common files managed by a samba server on an xfs > filesystem. I want to undelete these files if possible. I have used the > testdisk and its file management tool before, but this time the problem is > that the partition has 443 G of data used. It would be extremely hard to pick > the lost files from a vast bunch of data. > > What would you recommend for this issue ? Thank you. Restore from backups. Also, Asking on the XFS list would be a good start - this is a FAQ. CC'd the XFS list so people can tell you their tails of recovery. Finally: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Does_the_filesystem_have_an_undelete_capability.3F Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs