On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 04:37:00PM +0100, Phil Deane wrote > the windows one. So I have deleted all my email's, all my progs, settings > and everything else, I copied across the one i had tried to copy and got > some of my settings back, but not many, and have managed to get it to look
> To cut a long story into a short question, is there such a thing as an > undelete command which will look for the mailboxes and see if i can salvage I had to do something like this once, my /home disk got messed up somehow (partition table IIRC). I ended up dd'ing the device into a file and manually retrieving the important stuff. On a 170Mb HDD this was not fun, and very time consuming. I also had the advantage that this was the only directory on the disk and that I didn't do anything to it before taking the image. Your stuff is probably still on the disk, in pieces, in unallocated blocks. If you really, really want to, take an image of the entire device into a file on a different disk, and open it up in a text editor (i used split(1) to chunk it into 1MB blocks) and wade through it. The more that you've written to the drive since you deleted stuff, the harder it is. The short answer to your question, is no, not really. Unless you're happy to spend days and days and days wading through a disk image to get some of your data back. - Aidan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.velvet.net/~aidan/ aim:aidans42 finger for pgp key fingerprint |Unix Programmer/Admin actively seeking work 01AA 1594 2DB0 09E3 B850 |CV at http://www.velvet.net/~aidan/cv.txt C2D0 9A2C 4CC9 3EC4 75E1 |Gis a job, go on, I can do that, go on, gis it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
