[luau] undoing a rm -fr *

[Eric Hattemer]

Tape backups.  That's about your only choice.  You could use your window
manager's trash can instead, but no, once files are deleted, they're gone
for good unless you backed them up.  Instead, next time use "rm -ir blah"
and it'll ask you "do you want to delte blah 1?  blah 2?" and if it seems
like its definitely deleting the correct files, they ctrl-C and rm -rf.
I've never heard of an undelete program for linux.  I don't think one
exists.  Even the ones for windows rarely worked properly.  I know in DOS,
if you delete a file, it just marks those clusters as capable of being
rewritten, then hides them.  I don't know what linux does.

-Eric Hattemer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronnie T Livingston" <rlivings at hawaii.edu>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: [luau] undoing a rm -fr *


> Is there someway to undo a rm -fr *.
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> -Ronnie
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