Re: undelete files

2009-09-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Danesh Daroui: > > I have deleted my "/tmp" directory by mistake. Generally, that shouldn't be a problem, since no application should expect to find data stored in there after a reboot anyway. Just recreate it and do 'chmod 1777 /tmp' afterwards. > I would like to ask if there is anyway to retri

undelete files

2009-09-18 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi, I have deleted my "/tmp" directory by mistake. Since the contents were too large, the system was unable to save the deleted data into .trash folder. After that, the system could not come up with this error "gdm user doesn't exist...", so I use Live CD to login into the system. I would like t

Re: Undelete files [RESOLVED]

2008-07-08 Thread Alejandro Aguila Sáinz
sunk. > > > application, it's running right now. I don't know the results yet, so if > > you have another option please let me know. > > - From Googling for "undelete ext3", I found: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html<http://www.x

Re: Undelete files

2008-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/08 19:45, Alejandro Aguila Sáinz wrote: > Hi! Today I just deleted a directory by mistake, it went to the trash, > so when I draged it back to my personal directory by mistake again I > cancelled the process, and now the directory is gone, do

Undelete files

2008-07-08 Thread Alejandro Aguila Sáinz
Hi! Today I just deleted a directory by mistake, it went to the trash, so when I draged it back to my personal directory by mistake again I cancelled the process, and now the directory is gone, do you know if there's a way to get it back? Thanks!!! -- Alejandro Aguila Sáinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PG

Re: undelete from XFS

2007-03-06 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:56:48AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > >> yes the sad fact is there is no undelete for XFS! - is it so? >> >> restoring from backup then :-( >> >> > Yep. A recent backup is your only hope, unless y

Re: undelete from XFS

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:56:48AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > yes the sad fact is there is no undelete for XFS! - is it so? > > restoring from backup then :-( > Yep. A recent backup is your only hope, unless you want to spend thousands of dollars on a data recovery service, whic

Re: undelete from XFS

2007-03-05 Thread Siju George
yes the sad fact is there is no undelete for XFS! - is it so? restoring from backup then :-( Thankyou so much :-) --Siju On 3/6/07, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just rm -rf some stuff from XFS filesystem :-( is there any way to undelete? Thankyou so much kindRegards

undelete from XFS

2007-03-05 Thread Siju George
Hi, I just rm -rf some stuff from XFS filesystem :-( is there any way to undelete? Thankyou so much kindRegards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I undelete a file in GNU/Linux or UNIX?

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Glen Yu wrote: > If I accidentally deleted a file in any GNU/Linux or Unix-based OS, is > there anyway I can recover those files? The good news is the file can be recovered in exactly the same way as you do in windows: Restore the file from a recent backup. The bad news is you need to have a ba

Re: How do I undelete a file in GNU/Linux or UNIX?

2007-02-01 Thread Ottavio Caruso
--- Glen Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If I accidentally deleted a file in any GNU/Linux or Unix-based OS, > is there > anyway I can recover those files? Usually, there isn't. On 'BSD hacks' there is a handy shell script that will backup deleted files to a hidden .trash direc

Re: How do I undelete a file in GNU/Linux or UNIX?

2007-01-31 Thread Glen Yu
I was hoping there was some way to resolve it without having to contact the admins =P, but I guess there's just no other choice huh? Anyway, thanks for your input. Cheers, -Glen On 1/31/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/07 11

Re: How do I undelete a file in GNU/Linux or UNIX?

2007-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/07 11:00, Glen Yu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If I accidentally deleted a file in any GNU/Linux or Unix-based OS, is > there > anyway I can recover those files? If you are using the ext2 filesystem and pulled the plug immediately, there's a sl

Re: How do I undelete a file in GNU/Linux or UNIX?

2007-01-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:00:35PM -0400, Glen Yu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If I accidentally deleted a file in any GNU/Linux or Unix-based OS, is there > anyway I can recover those files? > This was recently discussed. The answers are: 1) from a recent backup 2) if you are using a non-journali

How do I undelete a file in GNU/Linux or UNIX?

2007-01-31 Thread Glen Yu
Hi everyone, If I accidentally deleted a file in any GNU/Linux or Unix-based OS, is there anyway I can recover those files? Cheers, -Glen

Re: undelete

2007-01-24 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 19:00 +, andy wrote: > Tony Heal wrote: > > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > > switches to from the script to

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:44:17PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Tony Heal wrote: > Is there a way to recover deleted files? Restore it from your backup media. Failing that, it's gone (think twice, delete once). Better get yourself a nice firewire external hard drive of incredible size and start using faubackup before it happens again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:46:17PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > mv $@ ~/.Trash > Hmm. There are some problems here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which rm /home/roberto/bin/rm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rm test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls .Trash/ test [EMAIL

Re: RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. Anyone have something like

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Mike McCarty
'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. I don't have one, but it would be trivial to write a bash script that takes an rm and turns it into a mv /tmp/

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:25:21AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:32:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > > > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > >

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:32:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' t

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > That does not work to well in an automated script, but thanks > what doesn't? oh, top-posting. please don't do that. > > > Tony Heal wrote: > > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/23/07 12:44, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before > dele

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > Is there a way to recover deleted files? > Yes. From a recent backup. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:44 -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files

RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Heal
That does not work to well in an automated script, but thanks Tony _ From: andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:00 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: undelete Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread andy
Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. Anyone have something like

RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Heal
OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. Anyone have something like this hanging

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 10:37, Tony Heal wrote: > Is there a way to recover deleted files? Maybe, if you are using FAT (highly unlikely) or ext2 (also highly unlikely) and you pulled the plug as soon as you noticed what you did. Sadly, the standard answer, thoug

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tony Heal wrote: Is there a way to recover deleted files? Tony Yes, but as they said, not if you are still using the same computer. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
Is there a way to recover deleted files? Yes. 1) Shut down the computer. 2) Ask a more specific question. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/1/23, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a way to recover deleted files? Tony Forensic Analysis. There are some tools that could help to recover deleted files, like the coroners toolkit or sleuthkit/autopsy. http://www.honeynet.org is a good place to learn something about it. http:/

undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Heal
Is there a way to recover deleted files? Tony

Re: UNdelete ???

2006-11-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Raquel wrote: I have a server that I totally messed up because I did something really stupid. It was back up and running within about 4 hours. Since then I've been working on backing up more and better/smarter. You might consider something like this for the future... http://www.mikerubel.

Re: UNdelete ???

2006-11-21 Thread Cameron Hutchison
how they lay out the disk. When you delete a file, the space it occupied becomes unallocated, available for reallocation to other files as needed. To undelete a file, you need to know the internals of the filesystem structure to recover the contents - if it is still available at all. -- To UN

Re: UNdelete ???

2006-11-21 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! Which filesystem? For ext2 there are same tool for recovery delete data, also for reiser (but here i'm not sure). But for ext3. :-(

Re: Best file system for Disk quotas and undelete

2005-05-08 Thread Siju George
On 5/6/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 10:33, Siju George wrote: > > > ext2? ext3? ReiserFS? JFS? > > Personally, I prefer XFS. ReiserFS is a good choice too, but I still have > stability concerns regarding Reiser. > one more quick question please :-) if I r

Re: Best file system for Disk quotas and undelete

2005-05-08 Thread Siju George
Dear Lee, sorry for the late reply :-( there was no office for two days. On 5/6/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 12:15, Siju George wrote: > > actually I don't run a GUI on this machine because it is a server that > > hosts some PHP website development. > > Ahh

Re: Best file system for Disk quotas and undelete

2005-05-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 06 May 2005 12:15, Siju George wrote: > actually I don't run a GUI on this machine because it is a server that > hosts some PHP website development. Ahh. What are you actually trying to prevent, then? Accidentally deleting your web projects? For software projects, I'd recommend getti

Re: Best file system for Disk quotas and undelete

2005-05-06 Thread Siju George
Thankyou so much Lee for your detailed reply. I appreciate them very much :-) On 5/6/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 10:33, Siju George wrote: > > Undeleting files shouldn't be part of a "strategy". At best, it's a last > resort. If it actually works, it's a

Re: Best file system for Disk quotas and undelete

2005-05-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 06 May 2005 10:33, Siju George wrote: > 1) implementing and managing disk quotas I think most of the mainstream filesystems support this equally well. Not sure though. > 2) easy undeleting of files Undeleting files shouldn't be part of a "strategy". At best, it's a last resort. If

Best file system for Disk quotas and undelete

2005-05-06 Thread Siju George
Hi all, May I know which filesystem is best for Debian woody 3.0r5 for 1) implementing and managing disk quotas 2) easy undeleting of files ext2? ext3? ReiserFS? JFS? Thankyou so much kind regards Siju

Re: ext3 undelete/recovery

2005-01-07 Thread Alvin Oga
tools from > finding > deleted data. There is still a way to undelete, grep the filesystem/partition > : > grep /dev/hda1 for example, but that s a no go for most people. as long as the data is intact, one could stitch the inode links back together again ( with debugfs ? ) or any oth

Re: ext3 undelete/recovery

2005-01-07 Thread Alban Browaeys
Alvin Oga ns.Linux-Consulting.com> writes: > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Alban Browaeys wrote: > > > I just wanted this to be somewhere , seems it s not worst a place than any other. > > > > With ext3 you cannot undelete a file . > > out of curiousi

Re: ext3 undelete/recovery

2005-01-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Alban Browaeys wrote: > I just wanted this to be somewhere , seems it s not worst a place than any > other. > > With ext3 you cannot undelete a file . out of curiousity, which undelete tools did you use ?? underneath ext3 is an ext2 fs ... so i dumb/u

ext3 undelete/recovery

2005-01-06 Thread Alban Browaeys
I just wanted this to be somewhere , seems it s not worst a place than any other. With ext3 you cannot undelete a file . That s right. But only if it was delete in a proper way, for example with rm . In case of a power failure, at reboot if the filesystem is badly broken and some file are lost

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:06:06AM -0500, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? i've definitely been in these shoes before. it may be too late depend

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:40:33 +1000 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? Although it's too late to help

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Jeremiah Foster
I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. is there an undelete util ? thanks Matt Matt, There is not an "undelete" utility as you might find under a proprietary operating system. However, if you were editing that file, in

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:40:33AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? $ apt-cache search undelete e2undel - Undelete utility for the ext2 file syste

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:40:33 +1000 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? "recover" undeletes files

RE: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Size: 13360 MD5sum: a6d0b77ce1ad858878f46b426490a661 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 abo

undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. is there an undelete util ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-05 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I > couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. I had > already looked at Midnight commander but your additions were helpful as I > only saw the in

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-04 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Potkin) writes: > > > The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible > > only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it > > would deal with ext3 is reasonable but

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-03 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Potkin) writes: > The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible > only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it > would deal with ext3 is reasonable but doesn't mc use debugfs which is > designed for an ext2 file system? >

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cheryl Homiak) writes: > Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I > couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. > Maybe you could still save some fragments of the file? or if you are *really* lucky, the relvant inodes still have

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-02 Thread Brian Potkin
easy or hard it was to recover the files. If I failed to get them back it wouldn't be disastrous but it was annoying to have made a mistake with a command I was familiar with. > > Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? > > > Since this is compatible with ext2, ext2 undele

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-02 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > [snip] As > for backups, I'm really sorry but i can't figure out what a MO disk is. I think this is tech speak for a magneto-optical disk, which is a rare beast that I've

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. I had already looked at Midnight commander but your additions were helpful as I only saw the information about undeleting from the command line. The information wasn'

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, March 1, Jeff did write: > Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > > > > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user > account on my laptop. > > However, how would I delete from the T

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > > > > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user > account on my laptop. > > However, how would I delete from the Trash

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:12:51AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > > > > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user > account on my laptop. > > However, how would I dele

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Paul Seelig
ot; i mean *IMMEDIATELY!*, or better put, RIGHT *NOW*! An now let's just calm down to be able to think for a minute. > Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? > Since this is compatible with ext2, ext2 undeletion should be possible. Now you have the possibility to find out yoursel

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Jeff
Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user account on my laptop. However, how would I delete from the Trashcan, save removing the alias temporarily? thanks, jc

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Ulf Rompe
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? I'm not shure if this works but I would give the normale "recover" for ext2 a try. Before using it you should umount the partition. And in the meantime you should use the partition rea

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dumb question/comment... since ext3 is just ext2 w/ journalling... - can you just unplay the journal ??? :-) otherwise to undelete ext2 files... and if you did undelete it successfullye... i donno what happens to your journaled fs http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Txt/erase.txt

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Vector
ou want to 'undelete' (or you unmount after boot if not the root partition and after killing all daemons that use the target filesystem). Then you grep the device (eg /dev/sdb1) for some part of the file you want and have it spew so many bytes before and after what you are looking for so that y

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system, > just destroyed some important records I was keeping. > Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? Ouch, no idea. > And if there is a way, but you had

Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system, just destroyed some important records I was keeping. Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? And if there is a way, but you had to have it pre-set up before the catastrophe occurred, I'd still like to know abo

Re: undelete for ext2

2001-08-06 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
> I was once asked whether or not GNU/Linux had any features to > prevent > users from doing bone-headed stupid things. > > Yes, I said. > > Bitter experience. Sometimes, even that isn't enough - especially when you are me. I have been through all the requirements to properly back up data and s

Re: undelete for ext2

2001-08-05 Thread Florian Weimer
ng ? or maybe even a better undelete > sofware. Hmm, restore your backup. ;-) The file names were stored in the directory entries, which likely have been overwritten during the deletion process. So the best thing is to recover the essential data (e.g., mailboxes), and just reinstall the s

undelete for ext2

2001-08-05 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
://freshmeat.net/projects/recover/ it seems to find the deleted inodes and then tries to dump them in a specified folder which leaves me with a lot of dump files - anybody with any clues as to what I can do with these files to put them back where they belong ? or maybe even a better undelete sofware. Any

Re: undelete for ext2

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:16:08AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > > It was pleasant afternoon when I realised that maybe, today would be > a good day to move the /var partition just to / so I can use the > extra space elsewhere and / had a couple of hundred megs n

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > > > Oops, typo in the email! I was trying /#undel:hdb1 but to no avail. > > Just tried it again, no such file or directory. > > mc -V says the undelfs is not compiled in. I have no idea why, the > object file is compiled during build. Mayb

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > Oops, typo in the email! I was trying /#undel:hdb1 but to no avail. > Just tried it again, no such file or directory. mc -V says the undelfs is not compiled in. I have no idea why, the object file is compiled during build. Maybe because it is build in a chroot. I'll

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > > Hi, > > > So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something > > promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, > > and tried to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or > > directory. > > It's c

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Adam C Powell, IV wrote: Hi, > So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something > promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, > and tried to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or > directory. It's cd /#undel:hdb1 Why do you think it is #debu

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
mike polniak wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Can anyone help me to properly use mc or any other undelete function? > > Try> apt-get install recover > Then go to www.linux-mag.com and read about recover and undeleting files > in the August 2000 issue.

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-04 Thread mike polniak
> > Can anyone help me to properly use mc or any other undelete function? Try> apt-get install recover Then go to www.linux-mag.com and read about recover and undeleting files in the August 2000 issue. -- LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it ~~~

Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or directory. This despite the potato mc package description saying, "This version comes with undelete for ext2 filesystems compiled in." The mc "homepage" on gnome.org is totally useless, and everything else (e.g. the GN

Re: undelete? Help

2000-12-23 Thread Bill Jonas
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:40:24PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > See the Ext2fs-Undeletion mini-HOWTO > (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.txt.gz, for > instance). Also try the recover and/or gtkrecover packages if you're > running unstable. I gave a talk about ext2 file undeletion

Re: undelete? Help

2000-12-23 Thread Sebastiaan
> >homedir. Glad I made a backup of important files today. > > > >Is there a way to retreive deleted files? In the Amiga days there were > >lots of programs to undelete files. Is there also a program for Linux? > > See the Ext2fs-Undeletion mini-HOWTO > (/usr/share/doc/

Re: undelete? Help

2000-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes I know, it is stupid, but I just deleted everything in my >homedir. Glad I made a backup of important files today. > >Is there a way to retreive deleted files? In the Amiga days there were >lots of programs to undelete files. Is the

undelete? Help

2000-12-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, Yes I know, it is stupid, but I just deleted everything in my homedir. Glad I made a backup of important files today. Is there a way to retreive deleted files? In the Amiga days there were lots of programs to undelete files. Is there also a program for Linux? THanks in advance, Sebastiaan

Re: rm -R /usr/ - undelete....

2000-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
quot;-f" was specified ??? if you do "rm -rf /any_dir" as rootalias it ??? ... a simple aliase "rm -i" drives me nuts... and too lazy to type rm -f too and better still if you can find a usable/workable "undelete" programeven better...

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > Lo?c Prylli posted a C programm on the newsgroup fr.comp.os.linux some 2 > years ago to detect an ext2 partition that can help to solve Jaldhar's > problem. > This programm can be found on but I don't know > the exact U

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Instead of me trying to cover every possible detail now (which is > impossible anyway), I suggest you try following my procedure and try to > account for the differences in your situation as you do it. If you have > specific questions or problems, feel fre

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-16 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > OK, I'm wrong about -u, it does work; I should have looked > closer. The use of 'fdisk -l', without a device parameter, still > doesn't work even though the man page says it should. > According to Tom's examples and the man page, "fdisk -l" and > "fdisk -l -u" should work wi

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:54:47PM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > I just tried (as root) the three fdisk examples (-l is lowercase > > L) given above. Only the last one worked: "fdisk -l /dev/hda". > > The -u does nothing at all. Does anybody else see this behav

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables? Date: Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:54:47PM + In reply to:Ed Cogburn Quoting Ed Cogburn([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > I

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:54:47PM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > I just tried (as root) the three fdisk examples (-l is lowercase > L) given above. Only the last one worked: "fdisk -l /dev/hda". > The -u does nothing at all. Does anybody else see this behavior, > or has my fdisk been lobot

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > In the future, I would recommend saving the output of either... > > > > > > 1) Linux fdisk ==>> fdisk -l > part.txt(this does all drives) > > > 2) Ranish PM ==>> part -d 1 -p -r > part.txt (for each drive) > > > > Tom, or somebody, w

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Ramakrishnan M wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > > Ranish Partition Manager is a DOS program, but is an excellent > > partitioning tool. It's source code is available for download from the > > web site. At one the time the author was planning on porting it over to > > Which

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ramakrishnan M
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Ranish Partition Manager is a DOS program, but is an excellent > partitioning tool. It's source code is available for download from the > web site. At one the time the author was planning on porting it over to Which site? Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web:

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > In the future, I would recommend saving the output of either... > > > > 1) Linux fdisk ==>> fdisk -l > part.txt(this does all drives) > > 2) Ranish PM ==>> part -d 1 -p -r > part.txt (for each drive) > > Tom, or somebody, what version of fdisk do you have? My

FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > > > Question: Was that possibly a Linux extended partition (type 85) as > > > opposed to a DOS extnded partition? That would explain why DOS fdisk > > > could delete it. > > > > Yes, originally this computer was set up by me with linux only. It was my > > colleague who star

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sat, 11 Sep, 1999 à 08:49:24PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > > > Partition records exactly as they appear in MBR (EMBR): > > > In fact, I don't even know how he deleted that partition with DOS fdisk > since it normally is not capable of deleting an extended partition

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