Re: holly crap!
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > I've done somethig very bad.. I did:
> >
> > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing
> >
> > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there
> > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ???
>
> I guess you were in home when you did that.
> Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you deleted is now gone.
> I dont think there's a way to recover it. I'd love to know a way, though,
> if there is one. (Perhaps a little modification could be done to rm
> command....make a recovery bin of a sort, copy files into there up to
> certain size, not delete them. But thats up to individual sysadmins to
> implement)
> Andrei
Not much luck. A quick search came up with some interesting links though:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html
http://www.faxandbackup.com/linux.htm
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