data domain lost - help?

From: Achim Pietzsch (achim.pietzsch_at_unibw-muenchen.de)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:47:32 +0100

We have a system with Tru64 5.1B. The following happend, as far as I could
reproduce: A new user account has been added with a home directory in
/data1/users/newuser . Then accidentally the user account was modified in
the Account Manager with the home directory now being /data1. This obviously
caused the complete loss of all data in the fileset /data1. There was no
affirmation or message about overwriting a directory or something similar.
Any help apreciated! Does anybody know what exactly the Account Manager
does? Is there a chance to recover the data?

Achim Pietzsch

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