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Re: [vox] rm -rf * sucks...
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Re: [vox] rm -rf * sucks...



On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Dave Margolis wrote:

> Mark K. Kim wrote:
>
> >
> > I haven't lost anything I can't download or re-write... I think... It's
> > hard to tell without having the files with me... =P  Just a lot of work to
> > recollect everything.
> >
>
> This worked for me a couple years ago when I did a really disastrous rm
> -rf of a whole web directory.  http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/recover/
>
> It looks like it might be ext2 only, but check it out yourself.

Thanks.  I got ext3 and tried it and it segfaulted.  I probably should
unmount it first =P but I doubt it'll make much difference though.

I recall Peter saying ext3 isn't like ext2 when it comes to undeleting
files.  How sad!!!

-Mark

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