From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: recovering files after rm Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:14:32 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <03033113143200.04308@unix.pa3gcu> References: <20030331083633.29504.qmail@webmail35.rediffmail.com> <20030331115400.A1195@neutrino.particles.org> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030331115400.A1195@neutrino.particles.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Elias Athanasopoulos , n mishra Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Monday 31 March 2003 08:54, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:36:33AM -0000, n mishra wrote: > > This probably sounds really silly but could someone please tell me > > if there is any way of recovering files which have been deleted > > using the rm command. > > In general: there is no way. Yes there are ways; There is much information and programs about undeleting files on the web, simply use www.google.com/linux and type in "deleted files" I got more than 100 hits and some good help. > If you are lucky, you can dump using dd your partition's data in a file > and then search in the file for the missing data, but again this is not > trivial and doesn't work 100%. > > Elias -- Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs