Re: Doh!

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Jc,

There may still be a temporary file created by vi. It might
be in the same directory or in /tmp. 

And you can always go over the entire contents of the disk
in the raw with a hex editor :-)

-Jake

--- Jean-Christian Imbeault <jean_christian@example.com> wrote:
> >I recall hearing about an "undelete" utility for ext2 file
> >systems. You might have a look on freshmeat.net.
> 
> Found it. It's called unrm. I installed it and it seems to work quite
> well.
> 
> But I just realized there is almost no hope for me (not in the gran
> scheme 
> of thing I hope). I realized that I didn't actually delete the file,
> vi 
> overwrote it with the new edits (which unfortunately was a 1000dd)
> ... so 
> the file still exists, the data has just been overwritten.
> 
> Poor me.
> 
> Jc
>
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