Big Boo Boo

[James McDonald]

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:47:45PM -0500, Rick Sivernell took 24 lines to
> write:
>>
>> Accidently rm -r /<dir> and all of it's contents, is there a way or
>> command to
>> restore the files. the directory is on a partition of it's own and no
>> other data
>> is there.
>
> Nope. Unless you have backups, you're toast. Think twice; type once...

If the unlink system call is simply removing a pointer to a file that
still exists on the hd why is that the final call? isn't it possible to
get below the file system and see what data is still on the disk?