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 d
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
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People having trouble with vz
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 i
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 thin
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
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 yo
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 ex
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?
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
nate said:
> Harvey Kelly said:
> but making sense of the data is entirely different. Recovering hundreds or
> thousands of blocks of data doesn't do me much good if files are split up
> in different blocks/(inodes), and some inodes may have bits of more then
> one file.
I forgot to mention but
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> 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,
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
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 wh
Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but
not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education
and all that.
Thanks anyway,
Harvey
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:27:58AM +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> As far as I am aware debugfs can cope with an ext3
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:14:38AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but
> not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education
> and all that.
Strange but an advance, it would seem, on what recover gave you. Hop
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 would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have
> seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
Surely it is relatively easy to change th
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:14:38AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but
> not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education
> and all that.
Been there, done that. It's never fun.
Can I suggest using revision c
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.
http://www.gnu.org/software/fil
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 u
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
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
- 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
"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 Mond
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? Th
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:05:00 -0800 (PST), "nate"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
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 .p
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
On November 8, 2002 09:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> Can I suggest using revision control for important files? That way, you
> have a more convenient centrally-located thing to back up (the
> repository), and you get the extra benefit of being able to go back and
> look at older versions of what you
Hi
I’ve run
rm /*/*
as root
Can I recover all deleted files?
Thank you in advance
Ashot
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 d
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