[TriLUG] file recovery utility for ext2?

Scott Chilcote scottchilcote at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 8 15:53:05 EDT 2003


Hi Michael,

     http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html

Also, adding "alias rm="rm -iv" to your .bashrc/.bash_profile/.profile 
file helps.  The same can be done for "mv" and "cp" as well.

Good luck.

--
Scott C.



Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:

> Does anyone know of a utility to recover an "rm'd" file on Linux? A  
> "friend of mine" accidently deleted a very important file containing  
> days of work. (Of course I always do a backup every day and carefully  
> type out "rm" and so would never have this problem.)
> 
> Help!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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