On Thursday 01 March 2007 05:50, Russell Jones wrote: > Bruce Marshall wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:42, Brian Jackson wrote: > >> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 10:36, Mike Noble wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 01:05, Vince Oliver wrote: > >>>> I have deleted some important files with > >>>> rm -f * > >>>> > >>>> Is there a war to recover them in SuSE 10? > >>> > >>> Hope you have backups, otherwise they are gone. > >> > >> Unless they are JPEG images, then you can use the recoverjpeg package to > >> try a recovery. Works pretty good. > > > > Google is your friend. > > > > A google for 'linux file recover' found at least this and many other > > links..... > > > > http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/ > > Or if they are text, and you have a big enough partition: > dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/hda3_partition_image.img bs=5M > I think the optimal block size is about half the rate the data is copied > per second. I've not tested this thoroughly, though. > then (much later) > strings /mnt/hda3_partition_image.img > > /mnt/hda3_partition_image_strings.txt > grep -i "stuff I want" /mnt/hda3_partition_image_strings.txt | less > > I had to do this a week or so ago due to HDD failure :-( It took 16 > hours to read the 8Gb disk because there were so many read errors. I did > get back the two files I needed, though. Fortunately all the copies of > the file had the same beginning and ending so I could write a quick > script to pull all the copies out then diff them to find the newest. I > learnt my lesson, and have set up RAID 1 and a backup cron job that > copies the files to an unprivileged user account on another machine that > in turn will be backed up to tape.
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