On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:04:34AM +0000, Joi L. Ellis wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the leading > > part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the messages it > > presents, if you don't just give up and use a scratch directory, then move > > what it recovers, I am sure not about to let it destroy everything in my > > home dir just to recover the linuxcnc subdir. It may be capable of doing > > that, but the "are you sure" messages just warn that the /home/gene > > directory will be nuked. > > > > What backup method is your DLE using? Gnutar strips the leading / off > automatically when you extract from a tarball, so it won't just overwrite > your real stuff automatically. The only way it will overwrite original > anything is if you're sitting in / when you run amrecover. > Joi, In this case "/" is the "root" of the DLE, not the file system. Gene's DLE is of /home. So if he were to recover his home directory "gene" while sitting in the file system root, I think it would make "/gene" as a new directory rather than overwriting "/home/gene".
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