On Tuesday October 14 2003 08:59 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday October 14 2003 10:39 am, Jason Greenwood wrote: > > Anyone know how to undelete in XWC? I accidentally deleted some > > files I'd dearly like to have back =( > > > > Cheers All, > > > > Jason > > File manager you use isn't the question, what file system you > use is. Anyhow, undelete is not doable, and/or you won't be too > happy with the results anyhow. If the files you accidently > deleted belong to a package, just use 'rpm -Uvh --force > package.rpm' (same version/patch level as already installed) to > replace the missing files. See 'man rpm' to see just what --force > does. This is just about the only proper use of --force. If it > was your data or config files, restore from the backups you > regularly make ;)
Just an addition. There's a pertinent article to the subject today at http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/10/08/1416248.shtml?tid=23 It's mostly about recovering file systems, but deals with undeleting also. If you read the whole article, I believe you'll see why I wrote 'undelete is not doable, and/or ....'. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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