Big Boo Boo

[Tom Wilson]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 20:47, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> 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.
> 
> any help appreciated.

Try looking at the www.tldp.org for undeleting. I I had a similar
experience a couple of years ago.  I wiped my whole home directory. With
the info from tldp and some more I found googling for "linux undelete" I
believe, I  managed to get less than 50% of my files back.  Sorry I
can't be more specific with the sites, that was a long time and many
beers ago.  :-)

It was a long and arduous task and the recovery rate of files really is
dependent on how soon you shutdown the computer after the deletion.  I
had found after googling for an hour or so that you really need to take
the pc down right away when that happens or inodes start getting
recycled.  

HTH,

Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x4433 
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