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On Friday 15 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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 |
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> > partition as root ... of course :-( He removes about 50% of data. |
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> > And my question is: is there a utility to undelete the files and |
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> > directories or at least some files? I know that this shouldn't be |
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> > possible but data are worth to ask :-) |
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> He could try photorec from the testdisk package, but mount the |
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> filesystem ro immediately to reduce any further damage. The output |
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> from photorec isn't pretty and will take a lot of work to sort out |
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> what is worth keeping, but that is all part of the learning process |
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> :P |
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Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) |
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pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro |
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immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in the |
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meantime. |
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However, by the time you are done it is usually not worth the effort it |
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took. It's easier to reinstall and restore backups. But if there are |
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some irreplaceable files on that disk, you have no choice. good luck to |
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him. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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