John, That's a bit of a problem since ext3 is a bit more thorough at zeroing inodes than plain old ext2, which just marks the file deleted and leaves it at that.
However, some report success using (quote from Linuxquesions.org follows): <quote> 1. Foremost: http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ I was quite sucsessful with this program. It restored allot of multimedia files and .doc files, but the directory structure and files names were all similar to /gif/83772928.gif . 2. Photorec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec The results were quite similar to those produced by Foremost or Stellar Phoenix Linux. However, it also restored some .tar and .gz files, which is more along the lines of what I need. </quote> This could be a start, but of course the best way to handle this is "tar xzvf <your-backup-archive-here>" ;) And backuppc is a very slick and easy way to make sure that a backup archive exists and is uptodate. Which is all too after the fact, I know. And no, you definitely are NOT the only one to have done that's done that - I'm *absolutely* sure at least one other has done that very thing, and no, I didn't have an uptodate backup then either... Good luck, Vern > OK, I can't be the only one who has done something like this... > > At least I hit ^c very soon after rm * [thought I was in a different > directory down one level from home] > System if RH7, files are ext3.. Any chance to recover stuff? Have done > nothing in home since.. > > John McKelvey > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
