Hi David, > So how do I go about recovering a deleted or recently overwritten file > in SUSE? > > I am hoping Linux works like Windows in that it deletes by mangling > the filename and making by making the file invisible, only > obliterating it when it needs the disk space. There is plenty of room > on the disk and in all the partitions.
I don't think there's much hope. If you had accidentally removed the file this morning, and realise this afternoon, having not done much to the machine in the meantime, then one of the undelete utilities may work. But the re-install from scratch will have done lots of writing to your hard drive, ignoring the entire filesystem layout that was there before. For the data to have survived that would be a long-shot. Unless the file was on a separate partition that doesn't have much happening to it during the installation, but that's unlikely. Perhaps someone else will have some ideas. It may be worth creating a script to backup your preferred data. Then you can add things to it as they come along/you remember them/you realise you've lost them. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
