Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

A couple of comments here. I agree with Niall in that a properly implemented trashcan should have both a capacity and length of time where anything older than the specified time should be purged. I do think that trashcans are useful in that we tend to delete things by accident. However, in the

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Suzanne Hillman wrote: > Somehow, having to purge one's trashcan periodically is quite irritating. > Especially when you aren't the one who were involved in implementing that > change on the machines, so you don't know it's different. > A properly implemented trashcan never

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Suzanne Hillman wrote: > I recently ran into a version of RedHat (I think it was 6.2, but I *know* > the vendor who sent the equipment changed things) which had the rm command > replaced with a command that saved things to a trashcan instead of > deleting them. Hmmm... that

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On 28 Jun, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:22:57 EDT > Stephen Ryan said: > >>Hey, I've heard that there are only two kinds of system administrators: >>Those who have accidentally done (the moral equivalent of) rm -rf /, and >>those who have not yet done so. > >

RE: Help! how do you you undelete??

Has anyone followed these DESPERATE UNDELETE instructions before? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Tips-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2 Do they work at all? - Chris ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following tex

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:22:57 EDT Stephen Ryan said: >Hey, I've heard that there are only two kinds of system administrators: >Those who have accidentally done (the moral equivalent of) rm -rf /, and >those who have not yet done so. Well, sort of. There are those sysa

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On 28 Jun, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:17:44 EDT > Stephen Ryan said: > >>The last time I accidentally deleted files, the damage was so great that >>I reformatted, reinstalled and restored from backup rather than >>trying to recover several thousand files one

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:17:44 EDT Stephen Ryan said: >The last time I accidentally deleted files, the damage was so great that >I reformatted, reinstalled and restored from backup rather than >trying to recover several thousand files one at a time (the scene at >SysAdmins Anonymo

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:07:21 EDT Dave Cherkus said: >The desigers of the Network Appliances WAFL file system built an >intelligent file system for human (i.e. non-infallable) people. With >it you can efficiently save snapshots of your directories on-line at >fixed points in tim

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:54:41AM -0400, Suzanne Hillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Bob Bell wrote: > > FWIW, I only commented because I just noticed last week that AdvFS > > (on Tru64 Unix) let you do 'mktrashcan' to save deleted files, > > although I don't think it's

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On 28 Jun, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:08:27 EDT > Brice Gibson said: > >>here's a dumb question... >> >>some files got deleted, can I undelete them and how? > > In Short: > Nope. They're gone. Hope you have good backups :) > > (if you're satisfied w

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

Paul Lussier writes: |> |> You might ask, why doesn't Linux have a "trash can" feature like Windows? |> Well, it could, it would be a simple shell script wrapper around 'rm'. |> |> But consider that Unix in general was written by intelligent people for |> intelligent people. The designers inte

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Bob Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 07:19:11AM -0400, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Brice Gibson wrote: > > > some files got deleted, can I undelete them ... ? > > > > No. > > FWIW, I only commented because I just noticed las

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > You might ask, why doesn't Linux have a "trash can" feature like Windows? > Well, it could, it would be a simple shell script wrapper around 'rm'. KDE does have a trashcan feature... just like Windows and Macintosh. > But consider that Unix in general w

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

In a message dated: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:08:27 EDT Brice Gibson said: >here's a dumb question... By the way, it's not a dumb question :) -- Seeya, Paul "I always explain our company via interpretive dance. I meet lots of interesting people that way."

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

In a message dated: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:08:27 EDT Brice Gibson said: >here's a dumb question... > >some files got deleted, can I undelete them and how? In Short: Nope. They're gone. Hope you have good backups :) (if you're satisfied with this answer, feel free to skip to the next e-m

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 07:19:11AM -0400, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Brice Gibson wrote: > > some files got deleted, can I undelete them ... ? > > No. Assuming use of the ext2 file system, of course. The answer is really based on the file system, thou

Re: Help! how do you you undelete??

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Brice Gibson wrote: > some files got deleted, can I undelete them ... ? No. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Net Technologies, Inc. Voice: (800)905-3049 x18 Fax: (978)499-7839 ** To unsubs

Help! how do you you undelete??

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