Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Dimitar Vassilev
2013/2/28 Ben Cottrell tam...@wolfhut.org On Feb 27, 2013, at 19:08, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr jnagyjr1...@gmail.com wrote: If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. No finger-wagging from this quarter at least! Something I've sometimes done to retrieve text content is to

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. I've experienced similar and

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Doug Hardie
On 28 February 2013, at 01:02, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 02/28/13 03:02, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it.

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:55:45 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 02/28/13 03:02, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Obviously we're talking about a USB stick, so no TB amount of data has to be processed. First of all: Do _not_ alter the USB

Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-27 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. Here is what happened. I was mounting a thumb drive and I was wanting to 'rm -rf' what was on it

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-27 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Feb 27, 2013, at 19:08, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr jnagyjr1...@gmail.com wrote: If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. No finger-wagging from this quarter at least! Something I've sometimes done to retrieve text content is to run a strings on the disk device (the thing in