Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?

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From: Michael Ashton
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 00:00

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In <46vke4$lu5@tornix.tornado.be> jan.vo@tornado.be (Jan Van Overbeke) writes:

>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.

Probably.  umount'ing made it less likely, but still very likely.

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

Not really.  You will have to search the entire disk for zero-count inodes.

/sunsite/system/Filesystems/lde-2.2.tar.gz may be able to help you.  Best of
luck.

>No rm means forever :)

Basically - so watch it.
-- 
			michael@unixsoft.demon.co.uk
  "If I could see before the blindness, the smile you gave before the pain,
      I could accept a world of darkness, and never see the sun again".

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From: Michael Ashton <mashton@unixsoft.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?
Date: 1995/10/29
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