Many thanks to Rob and Vern for their suggestions on possible ways to solve my " rm * " dilemna.
Some days one is too dumb to realize how lucky one can be.. :-) Turns out on this machine there are two hard drives, and I had forgotten that in anticipation to upgrading to RHEL4 from RH7 I had backed up "home" to the second hard drive... Sometimes you just get lucky!! Embarassed, relieved, but now smiling, John On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Rob Ludwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short answer: Yes. > > Longer Answer: Read this and see if you really want to undergo it. > > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html<http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ecarlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html> > > > > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 17:42 -0400, John McKelvey wrote: > > 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 > >
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