Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +0000, Harvey Kelly wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. >> >> # rm -rf * >> >> Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy. >> >> I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable >> (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I >> run as root: >> recover -a >> >> Scanning devices... >> Ext2 devices: >> recover: No valid standard devices found; are you a privileged user? >> >> If your device is not listed, you can still use it >> Please enter the partition's device name >> >> <To which I enter /dev/hda7> >> >> Getting inodes (this can take some time)... >> debugfs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) >> Terminated >> >> And I'm back at the prompt, with nothing recovered as I can tell. >> Please, where am I going wrong? In addition to losing everything (no >> back-ups, I know, I know), a 3,000 word essay due in Monday has been >> lost. > > As far as I am aware debugfs can cope with an ext3 filesystem so see if > this helps. > > As root type debugfs /dev/hdb7 at the prompt. You should see something > like this. > > debugfs 1.30-WIP (30-Sep-2002) > debugfs: > > Now enter lsdel for a list of deleted inodes, file sizes and deletion > times. The output is piped through a pager. You will have to use file > size and deletion time as a guide to which file you want to recover. > > The final step is > > debugfs: dump <inode number> /tmp/foo.txt > > Note the angle brackets. > > Ideally you should have unmounted the partition immediately so that > nothing has been written to it. > > Brian. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
