On 25-Jul-2000 Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . > > IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that > was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into > files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces > (so I can manipulate them in the 40M partition normally assigned for > swap).
I've had pretty good success with mc's undelete fs. Or you can try the linux disk editor, lde. > I want to get a literal straight read of the disk. Can anyone point > out how to do this. dd if=/dev/[partition] of=[dumpfile] > To complicate matters, the machine has no netwerok connectivity; > it's a laptop, and the pcmcia hardware seems to have gone south . . .