[Fsf-india] 'rm' command
Abhas Abhinav
abhas@deeproot.co.in
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:56:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Gopal.V wrote:
>--|> is there any command to recover a removed file on linux
>--|> system. If anybody knows please mail me....
>--| Try Midnight commander's (`mc`) undelete option. Take mc, press F9
>--|and cycle menus (cursor keys) until you reach the Command menu. It has
>--|an Undelete option.
>--|
>--| It shows the latest "deleted" INODE numbers.If it is a text file
>--|you lost, you can change the MC's right pane into quickview (C-x q).
>--|And scroll thru the INODES , hopefully you'll spot your file.
Needless to say that this only works on ext2 (and maybe ext3 - don't
know for sure) - it will definitely not work on on ReiserFS -
something a lot of distributions ship with nowadays...
cheers,
abhas.
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