On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Murali Babu <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello linuxers, > > Yesterday I had working in pc which has a centos 5.4 os, by mistake i > deleted > some files which are all very very important. > Please guide me recover my deleted files in centos > > -- > Regards > > D. Murali Babu > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > Hi, linux is a multi user, when you deleted a file and if you want to recover it, reboot the machine to single user mode, and then do the following ( if you have not rebooted the machine to single user mode, while the other user writing some file, it may be written to that place ). grep -b 'search-text' /dev/partition > file.txt OR grep -a -B[size before] -A[size after] 'text' /dev/[your_partition] > file.txt - This method is ONLY useful if deleted file is text file. If you are using ext2 file system, try out recover command.. - this we can use only when we are using ext2 file system, -- Best Regards, R.Sasi, D.C.E., M.C.A. Associate System Engineer, Chennai. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
