rm -rf [COLUG]

Josh Glover jmglov at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 17:41:49 EDT 2006


On 25/08/06, Duane <duane at cacert.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 09:04 -0400, Jim wrote:
>
> > If you deleted files from a Linux partition,
> > they will be _very_ difficult to recover.
> > Kiss them goodbye.
>
> Ummmm not entirely true, although most likely you will loose the proper
> file names, I did a recovery the other day on a reiserfs partition,
> while not 100% perfect, most information that was lost was recoverable.

Also, I have had good luck undeleting on ext2 filesystems, as documented here:

http://www.linuxsir.org/main/doc/ext2undelete/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html

I think that with xfs, you are pretty screwed.

-Josh


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