Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread pat
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:01:25 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote > Uwe Thiem writes: > > > On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > > > > > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) > > > > > > > > pat, it might be possible to get some st

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Uwe Thiem writes: > On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > > > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) > > > > > > pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted > > > ro immediately and IF not much writing t

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
080215 pat wrote: > One of my coligues used this "rm -rf /" command on his ext3 partition > as root: He removes about 50% of data. is there a utility > to undelete the files and directories or at least some files? One of the Linux news sites relayed an article yesterday, which mentioned several r

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) > > > > pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted > > ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in > > the mea

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: > > However, by the time you are done it is usually not worth the > > effort it took. It's easier to reinstall and restore backups. But > > if there are some irreplaceable files on that disk, you have no > > choice. good luck to him. > > There's a home directo

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread pat
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Friday 15 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > 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. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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 an

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread pat
Hello, 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