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Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ550 HELP - NEED UNDELETE HELP



"E.B. Dreger" wrote:
> 
> JDG> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:37:26 -0600
> JDG> From: John D. Gorena
> 
> JDG> On one of my servers I was trying to delete the files in 3
> JDG> directories with
> JDG>     rm */*
> JDG> but I accidently put a stupid slash in front as
> JDG>     rm /*/*
> 
> Uh-oh.
> 
> JDG> Please help me undelete these files.  I cannot seem to find
> JDG> out how to do it.
> 
> A Google search for
> 
>         ext2fs undelete linux
> 
> gives you an idea what you're facing.  AFAI recall, there's no
> easy BSD undelete(2)-style utility.
> 
> When I did a very stupid thing and clobbered my MBR and beginning
> of the first slice on a BSD machine, I ended up writing my own
> tool to munch raw disk blocks and recover my partition table.
> It's doable, but not exactly Unix 101. :-(
> 
> You're much better off just restoring from backups.
> 
> Eddy
> --

Raq550 is XFS file system.

I think I'm dead on this one.

John