On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Florin Iucha wrote: > > B*A*C*K*U*P Lucky for me, this wasn't important data. As you can probably guess, it's my entire MP3 collection and some other misc crap. Oh well, guess a few more months of ripping for me. > > Sorry to editorialize, especially in a moment like this but this is why > I was preaching: > - separate your $HOME stuff in $REALLY_HOME and > $MP[3G]S_AND_OTHER_CRAP, where $REALLY_HOME is less than 640 Megs > (guess why) I have a 2GB DDS drive. Hindsight is 20/10. > And if you tell me that you have had 6 gigs of $REALLY_HOME critical > stuff that you haven't backed up, please allow me to not believe it. well, as a sysadmin I should be shot. Like I said, it's just MP3s ripped from my CD collection that I really care about. > In theory data is there, but metadata is gone. Dump that partition into > a file in a spare partition/hdd and analyze it later. But if it's binary > data... slim chance. yeah, I doubt MP3 is easy to recover this way. Well, now for a nice fun weekend.. :-)