>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Steve Gulick wrote:
>
> > Ok, Well, to make a long story short I messed up big time and I know I
> > should have had a more recent back up but I didn't and a typo lead me to
> > rm -rf my /home partition. I immeadiately umounted /dev/hda7 (/home
> > partition) so as to not overwrite any files. Now my question is
> aside from
> > the Undelet--mini howto does anyone know of any tools that will
> recover the
> > deleted files and file names? Is this possible? Any and all feedback is
> > appreciated!
> >
> > TIA
> > Steve, still at work kicking himself in the arse :(
> >
> Steve,
> I have only used it in tests, but Midnight commander has an
> option under Commands when you are logged in as root "Undelete files"
> that will undelete files. But it doesn't list the names of the files...
> I am not sure you can recover the file names, because the directory file
> gets re-wirren when you delete a file, and that is the only place the
> name is stored. (The actual directory file, that contains the pointers
> to the Inodes, not all the files in the directory.) I have not had much
> luck recovering directories.
>
> I wish I could offer more help...
> Mikkel
Thanks for the tip. I need the file names or I may as well start from
scratch which would be about a months worth of work. God I can't believe I
didn't back that directory up! I know better. #$%@#
Steve
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