🚀 go-pugleaf

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).

I don't know of any linux tools specifically designed for this problem,
however if the lost files were text you might be able to recover some
of your data by scanning the raw disk device for known patterns.

Incidentally, the best chance for recovery might have been to turn off the
power for your machine before the MBR had a chance to be updated, and then
use fsck to recover the file system.  On the other hand this could also
corrupt your filesystem beyond repair; it's really a role of the dice.

Of course the best solution would be to hack the fsck source to recover
recently deleted inodes.

-Jonathan-