Re: holly crap!
On Aug 03, 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:13:04PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Help, PLEASE HELP I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? Remount the affected partition read-only (yet another reason to create multiple system partitions, BTW). This will prevent any further changes to the system. Gnu Midnight Commander (mc or gmc) is alleged to have some data recovery potential. You might want to investigate this. Midnight Commander can recover deleted files. The files that can be recovered are displayed with numbers instead of names, so all you have to do is undelete and rename. Generally speaking, file deletion is a pretty definitive act under Linux. There are data recovery firms which specialize in retrieving lost data. If the data are sufficiently important to you, you may want to get a quote. Backups are good. Early and often. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
holly crap!
Help, PLEASE HELP I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? thanks . . .
Re: holly crap!
I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? I guess you were in home when you did that. Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you deleted is now gone. I dont think there's a way to recover it. I'd love to know a way, though, if there is one. (Perhaps a little modification could be done to rm commandmake a recovery bin of a sort, copy files into there up to certain size, not delete them. But thats up to individual sysadmins to implement) Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: holly crap!
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? I guess you were in home when you did that. Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you deleted is now gone. It is possible to recover the data with ext2ed... provided that you have a pretty good idea of what it is, have enough spare space lying around to make a complete copy of the partition, nothing has written over it, and you know how the filesystem works. If it's text data, you might be able to fish it out by grepping the device file for parts of it. The 'gitview' program is invaluable doing this sort of thing since you can see text and binary data together.
Re: holly crap!
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:13:04PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Help, PLEASE HELP I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? Remount the affected partition read-only (yet another reason to create multiple system partitions, BTW). This will prevent any further changes to the system. Gnu Midnight Commander (mc or gmc) is alleged to have some data recovery potential. You might want to investigate this. Generally speaking, file deletion is a pretty definitive act under Linux. There are data recovery firms which specialize in retrieving lost data. If the data are sufficiently important to you, you may want to get a quote. Backups are good. Early and often. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpRY94eGIIKF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: holly crap!
I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? There is a package in unstable called 'recover'. Description: Undelete files on ext2 partitions Recover automates some steps as described in the ext2-undeletion howto. This means it seeks all the deleted inodes on your hard drive with debugfs. When all the inodes are indexed, recover asks you some questions about the deleted file. These questions are: * Hard disk device name * Year of deletion * Month of deletion * Weekday of deletion * First/Last possible day of month * Min/Max possible file size * Min/Max possible deletion hour * Min/Max possible deletion minute * User ID of the deleted file * A text string the file included (can be ignored) If recover found any fitting inodes, he asks to give a directory name and dumps the inodes into the directory. Finally he asks you if you want to filter the inodes again (in case you typed some wrong answers). http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/recover.html I have not used said package, but came across it during another install. -nicole
Re: holly crap!
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? I guess you were in home when you did that. Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you deleted is now gone. I dont think there's a way to recover it. I'd love to know a way, though, if there is one. (Perhaps a little modification could be done to rm commandmake a recovery bin of a sort, copy files into there up to certain size, not delete them. But thats up to individual sysadmins to implement) Andrei Not much luck. A quick search came up with some interesting links though: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html http://www.faxandbackup.com/linux.htm -- Nitebirdz http://www.linuxnovice.org Tips, articles, news, links...
Re: holly crap!
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Help, PLEASE HELP I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? thanks . . . The Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO may be of some help. I've never tried file recovery on ext2fs myself. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html Tom
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Hello, I wanted to drop this back to the list and thank EVERYONE who took a moment to reply to my major oopsie I have never done something to was so destructive and so very fast - yup, linux is truly a power OS.. I did loose it all. I was going to copy the whole hd, so I installed a new 20 gig wd... On boot, linux decided it had to clean hda.. Nuff said.. But I can deal with it. Yes, Lost a lot of neat stuff that should have been put away in a much cleaner manor. Yes, backups ARE required, often. Yes, the CD-R/RW has now been installed! Still, thank you all. You will probably never understand how much help you have been to me in my blind linux pursuits. Regards On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Help, PLEASE HELP I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? thanks . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
