On 28 Jun, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:08:27 EDT
> Brice Gibson said:
>
>>here's a dumb question...
>>
>>some files got deleted, can I undelete them and how?
>
> In Short:
> Nope. They're gone. Hope you have good backups :)
>
> (if you're satisfied with this answer, feel free to skip to the next e-mail in
> your in box, otherwise, read on :)
>
> In Long:
>
> You might ask, why doesn't Linux have a "trash can" feature like Windows?
> Well, it could, it would be a simple shell script wrapper around 'rm'.
>
> But consider that Unix in general was written by intelligent people for
> intelligent people. The designers intended for people to think carefully
> about what they were doing before they did it. This is evident in just about
> everey facet of the system, fron the concept of named pipes to piping command
> output to other commands and shell redirection to accomplish more than a
> single monolithic application is capable of.
>
> In short, they believed in my philosophy of "Stupidity should be painful".
> (of course they didn't call it that back then :) This may be blunt, but if
> more people thought this way, there's be much less of what I call
> "The Ooops Factor", and this would be a good thing :)
All that said, however, if you're desperate, you can go to
www.freshmeat.net and search for "recover", you'll find information on
undeleting files. I would suggest doing the research with a different
machine; use the affected machine as little as possible until you can
actually try a recovery procedure, so as to minimize the chances of
overwriting one of the deleted files; you'll probably also need to boot
into single-user mode, if you can, to avoid overwriting things.
The last time I accidentally deleted files, the damage was so great that
I reformatted, reinstalled and restored from backup rather than
trying to recover several thousand files one at a time (the scene at
SysAdmins Anonymous: "Hi, my name is Stephen, and I've typed rm -rf
/"), so I don't actually know how well those procedures work, but I
suppose it's worth a try if there's no other way of getting your files
back.
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes,
C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College
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