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 Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as Satan laid his soul to waste.
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