[fwlug] Recovering files from dumb mistake

[John McKelvey]

Many thanks to Rob and Vern for their suggestions on possible ways to solve
my " rm * " dilemna.

Some days one is too dumb to realize how lucky one can be.. :-)  Turns out
on this machine there are two hard drives, and I had forgotten that in
anticipation to upgrading to RHEL4 from RH7 I had backed up "home" to the
second hard drive... Sometimes you just get lucky!!

Embarassed, relieved, but now smiling,

John

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Rob Ludwick <rob at rcludw.no-ip.org> wrote:

> Short answer: Yes.
>
> Longer Answer:  Read this and see if you really want to undergo it.
>
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html<http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ecarlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 17:42 -0400, John McKelvey wrote:
> > OK, I can't be the only one who has done something like this...
> >
> > At least I hit ^c very soon after rm * [thought I was in a different
> > directory down one level from home]
> > System if RH7, files are ext3..  Any chance to recover stuff?  Have
> > done nothing in home since..
> >
> > John McKelvey
> >
> >
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