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Article #84Re: Query: Recover rm'd files?
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 00:37
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 00:37
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Andy Lee writes > Is there ANY way to recover deleted files (using rm)? > FAQ candidate. In a word, no. In theory, if you shutdown your machine very fast, boot from another disk, mount the disk read only, are good at reading raw disks you may be able to snarf around enough to scrounge most of the bits and pieces. It's the kind of thing that is worth doing only if the alternative is repeating all your last 10 years field work in Outer Mongolia. Most of the equivalents of Norton Utilities work the NS works: put the stuff in a temporary hidden directory, and discard later. The single most important activity a system administrator has is making good backups. Backups make 99% of all disaters into mere nuisances.
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