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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:09:37 +0100, pat wrote: |
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> One of my coligues used this "rm -rf /" command on his ext3 partition |
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> as root ... of course :-( He removes about 50% of data. And my question |
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> is: is there a utility to undelete the files and directories or at |
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> least some files? I know that this shouldn't be possible but data are |
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> worth to ask :-) |
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He could try photorec from the testdisk package, but mount the filesystem |
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ro immediately to reduce any further damage. The output from photorec |
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isn't pretty and will take a lot of work to sort out what is worth |
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keeping, but that is all part of the learning process :P |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Bother," said Pooh, as Satan laid his soul to waste. |
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