> [bp] > While sorting a large set of files this morning I mindlessly did a \rm > -fr on the directory I had sorted. The 11GB of sorted files was quickly > reduced by 4GB by the time I quickly hit Ctrl+C. Is there anyway to > easily recover these files? I realize the answer may likely be no and > thats what I get for being stupid before 7am. > > The filesystem was a smbmount of a Windows2000 share. The win2k recycle > bin is empty.
what was the filesystem type of the share? :) NTFS (more likely) or FAT32 (less), but other possibilities exist (iirc) well, the recycle bin's just a software layover that eventually takes the connecting flight to a bit bucket, but even without that, there's still lots of undelete options at the filesystem level back on the win2k box - a google search for "undelete ntfs" has lots of options. First rule, though, is to make sure to run whatever util from floppy or the network - installing anything on that machine (writing any files) is gonna start losing your data :) For what should be the same solution path: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win2000/Q_20150636.html -- James Manning <http://www.sublogic.com/james/> GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
