Samba recover file

bsherwood · 09-19-2005, 01:11 PM

I have saved a number of files to my samba drive today, and deleted them. I would now like some of this Is there anyway to recover files from a samba drive after they have been deleted?

This was all done in the course of a day and my backups are done at night, so thats not an option.

david_ross · 09-19-2005, 01:37 PM

It will depend what filesystem you are using

Matir · 09-19-2005, 01:39 PM

This depends on the underlying filesystem of the samba drive. For EXT2, you can try using the EXT2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO.

bsherwood · 09-19-2005, 01:51 PM

Ok, knew I was forgetting something

Samba Version 2.2.7

on

Linux Redhat 8.0

I'll look over that link, thanks.

bsherwood · 09-19-2005, 03:37 PM

Ok I realize i didn't answer the question about the filesystem.

I'm not sure what the answer is, how can one check what filesystem they are using, I'm guessing it is ext2 because from what i've read that is the most common.

thanks.

david_ross · 09-19-2005, 04:29 PM

Just run mount and it should tell you.

bsherwood · 09-19-2005, 05:20 PM

ok here is what mount gave me :

/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw, gid=5,mode620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

Matir · 09-19-2005, 08:26 PM

So you're running ext3. Unfortunately, files are generally near-impossible to recover from ext3 partitions. The coroners toolkit may be able to help some, but it's no guarantee.