tlug: Undeleting files in Linux

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:

 > Well, I managed to type 'rm tar tzf steve.old.tgz' and of course rm's
 > response was "no such file: tar tzf".  Oops.

 > What to my wondering eyes should appear but 18889 block indexes.
 > Since /playpen lives on a different partition from /var and /tmp, I
 > betcha I recover the file.  I won't do the tedious work until
 > tomorrow, I'll let you know if it worked.

Ouch! Doesn't sound like you had a good day.

Well, I suspect I'm carrying coals to Newcastle, but ... you know
you can recover files (very easily) with Midnight Commander?

Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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