Re: recover deleted files?

Mircea Damian (dmircea@lbi.lbi.ro)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:25:07 +0200 (EET)


On 3 Dec 1996, Matthew S. Crocker wrote:

>
> Travis Woodbury (travis@rwii.com) wrote:
>
> First,
>
> GOOD LUCK.
> :
> :
> : Hello,
> :
> : Does anyone know how I would go about recovering some deleted files??
> : Everything I have been told seems to indicate that it _should_ be
> : possible (with lots of work) but nothing says how exactly to go about
> : doing this. I have left the partition mounted read only since soon after
> : having screwed up. (a MB or two did get copied to the partition before I
> : realized what had happened). Partial recovery is much better then
> : nothing at all.
> :
> : I do realize that if this is possible that it isnt going to be easy but I
> : really need those files.
> :
> : Any and or all suggestions/comments would be appreciated.
> : Please send the replies directly to me as I am not on this mailing list.

Try Midnight Commander undelete command. You can get mc from
ftp://roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx/Midnight/mc-3.2.11.tar.gz. Then try to
compile it with undelete option and after all this are done do a "cd
undel:/dev/hdax".

> :
> : Thanks,
> :
> : -Travis Woodbury <travis@rwii.com>
>
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