On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> On Friday 15 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:09:37 +0100, pat wrote:
> > > One of my coligues used this "rm -rf /" command on his ext3
> > > partition as root ... of course :-( He removes about 50% of data.
> > > And my question is: is there a utility to undelete the files and
> > > directories or at least some files? I know that this shouldn't be
> > > possible but data are worth to ask :-)
> >
> > He could try photorec from the testdisk package, but mount the
> > filesystem ro immediately to reduce any further damage. The output
> > from photorec isn't pretty and will take a lot of work to sort out
> > what is worth keeping, but that is all part of the learning process
> > :P
>
> Neil, you are a master of understatement :-)
>
> pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro
> immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in the
> meantime.
>
> However, by the time you are done it is usually not worth the effort
> it took. It's easier to reinstall and restore backups. But if there
> are some irreplaceable files on that disk, you have no choice. good
> luck to him.
>
There's a home directory ... .
Pat
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