On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:54:38PM -0600, Brian wrote: > rm -rf is a great utility. Unless, of course, you're in the wrong > directory. And so I ask, how can I go about recovering a directory that > became victim to the almighty rm -rf? Wow, it must be that time of month, I accidently /exec rm -rf / in my IRC client while joking with someone.. > > Some of the files have probably been overwritten, but I'm talking about 6 > GB+ of files that were deleted. Since it's on the /home partition, I can > only assume that < 1 MB of data has been written to the partition. In > theory, the deleted inodes should still be out there. Are there any > methods/utilities that can help me? Best thing to do is umount *immediately*, run debugfs, and get acquainted with the commands. I managed to recover 99.9% of the ~18G that I deleted. I'm considering having a presentation on this at the next installfest if I can work up enough interest in it (and a good presentation). > > -Brian -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203