I have just done the stupidest thing. I was freeing up (rm -rf) space on what I thought was a storage directory (/srv), but I have now just discovered that it contained a critical qemu image. The image is a W7 VM and is still running; it appears unaffected. The /srv partition is the largest on this machine and the testdisk recovery image of this partition (~170G) is too large to fit anywhere on the hard drive.
This machine is mission critical. I cannot take it offline for another 6 hours, and I'll need to have it back up asap, (within an hour) so I need to plan my attack. So some very naive questions. Best option: 1) can I retrieve the deleted qcow image from a running instance of that image? Fall back option: 2) does anyone know if a new installation of the (Dell) W7 iso will still activate now that W7 is EOL? I know that option 2 (writing to disk) will reduce the possibility of a testdisk recovery. So, here's Q3: can i squeeze the second W7 VM into a 6G qcow image (remaining free space in /home)? I'm not going to do anything for a while, except think. And hide from the boss. All help would be appreciated. fraser _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng