Re: recover ext3 deletion

2005-12-31 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 30 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:43:12PM +0400, Danielyan, Ashot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've run rm /*/* as root Can I recover all deleted files? Yes. From your regular, updated, comprehensive system backups. Indeed. I've saved my life once in a

Re: Re: recover ext3 deletion

2005-12-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:43:12PM +0400, Danielyan, Ashot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi I've run rm /*/* as root Can I recover all deleted files? Yes. From your regular, updated, comprehensive system backups. Ext3 doesn't have an undeletion feature and by its design

Re: Re: recover ext3 deletion

2005-12-28 Thread Danielyan, Ashot
Hi Ive run rm /*/* as root Can I recover all deleted files? Thank you in advance Ashot

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2005-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:43, Danielyan, Ashot wrote: Hi I've run rm /*/* as root Can I recover all deleted files? Probably not. There is not that I've heard of, an undelete for ext2/3. Thank you in advance Ashot -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff
Gerald Livingston, 2002-Nov-08 22:54 -0600: I went googling and found a utility I had set up when I was first playing with slackware years ago. It's called safedelete and creates a trashcan like wrapper around 'rm'. I don't see it packaged anywhere and the .rpm's I found while goggling seem

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Harvey == Harvey Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harvey And I'm back at the prompt, with nothing recovered as I Harvey can tell. Please, where am I going wrong? In addition to Harvey losing everything (no back-ups, I know, I know), a 3,000 Harvey word essay due in Monday has

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
My file was dated 1996 and I too have no idea where it came from. The following makes it even more obvious: PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' Brian Potkin said: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current directory? That

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-10 03:22:22 +]: Some weirdness here... My Debian 2.1 single-CD version, using bash, DIDN'T. I remember quite clearly looking in the docs for how to change it, failing to find the 'official' method and ending up using something with `pwd`. The user

recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Harvey Kelly
Dear All, Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. # rm -rf * Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy. I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I run as root: recover -a Scanning

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Harvey Kelly wrote: Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. # rm -rf * Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy. I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I don't think

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hiya, Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I just being overly hopeful? And yeah, point taken about backing up. Harvey Craig Dickson wrote: Harvey Kelly wrote: Oh my. I cannot believe what

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Mark Ferlatte
begin Harvey Kelly quote on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:05:10PM +: Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I just being overly hopeful? Sorry man, I suspect that you're hozed. Something that you

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Harvey Kelly wrote: Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I just being overly hopeful? You're being overly hopeful. If it were that easy, recover would have worked. (Converting from ext3 to ext2

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Harvey Kelly
Damn. I'm starting the blasted essay again. Thanks to Craig too. Harvey Mark Ferlatte wrote: begin Harvey Kelly quote on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:05:10PM +: Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover?

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Harvey Kelly said: And I'm back at the prompt, with nothing recovered as I can tell. Please, where am I going wrong? In addition to losing everything (no back-ups, I know, I know), a 3,000 word essay due in Monday has been lost. hate it when that happens ..I've tried to do the same after

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Jeff Cours
nate wrote: I have no suggestions other then do backups, but I feel your pain. There are methods that can be implimented in linux to help restore files(try searching freshmeat for undelete) but last I looked they required the methods to be implimented at the time of the deletion. You know, it'd

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought. On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: Dear All, Oh my. I cannot believe what I

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Harvey Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-08 21:45:40 +]: Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. # rm -rf * I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive.

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Jeff Cours said: systems. Windows gets partway there with the trash can, I guess, but it KDE and Gnome have trashcans.. and the windows recycle bin/trash doesn't protect against deltree /y or del from the command prompt(last I checked which I admit was years ago since on every windows box I

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Rick Macdonald said: Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought. it does, unless you changed the default behavior. on every debian system I have used

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:58:52PM -0800, nate wrote: I too am very bad at backing up my personal data, I do back it up but its not often(maybe once or twice a year). Now that I have a DAT drive I may start doing it more often though. If you're bad at making backups, or don't have the means to

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
- Original Message - From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 22:16 Subject: Re: recover ext3 deletion On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:58:52PM -0800, nate wrote: I too am very bad at backing up my personal data, I do back it up but its