Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?

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From: Jan Van Overbeke
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 00:00

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Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> wrote:

>Big oops.  :-(

>The big rm command happily did it's job, and obliterated a bunch of
>file that I really wanted to keep.

>I immediately umount'ed that partition in the hope that the files are
>still there.

>Is there a file recovery tool about the place that I could use to get
>them back?  (I couldn't spot anything on sunsite).

No rm means forever :)

You could write your own script, like:


now=`date +%H%M%S`
mkdir /tmp/del.$now
cp $1 /tmp/del.$now -r
rm $1 -r


this takes some more time, but it's worth it :)




Jan.

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From: jan.vo@tornado.be (Jan Van Overbeke)
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Date: 1995/10/29
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