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[Duane]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 07:33 -0400, David McGlone wrote:

> I finally went to bed after I made a huge mistake and thought I had unmounted 
> the SMB shrare and ran rm -rf to remove the folder and lost 3 years of 
> personal accounting and about 2,000 MP3's and a bunch of other files I had 
> saved on that partition on the server.

Technically speaking, the files are only ever lost if you overwrite
them, deleting them simply removes references, run an undelete util over
the partition and it'll make them magically reappear...

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