how to recover deleted file by mistake

[ANAND SWAROOP SRIVASTAVA]

One day I deleted a file by mistake. Worst more I was in root login and used following command

rm -rf INSTANT

so the file got deleted, and it took 2 hours to build it again.

Is there ary method to get back the deleted file in LIUNX,

Any idea

[cafletch]

ANAND,

Your file is gone man. There is no way to recover it. Some people replace rm with a 'kit' which will move the file(s) into a temporary location

eg (off the top of my head)

mv /bin/rm /bin/rm.real

vi /bin/rm
#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -d /tmp/deleted_files ]; then
mkdir /tmp/deleted_files
fi

mv $* /tmp/deleted_files

[bigtomrodney]

Stellar Phoenix provide hardrive/data recovery programs, you will be able to download their demos and at least test for the presence of the files. I don't know if their linux client runs in linux or under Win32 by mounting these drives using their own drivers - but one thing is for sure, they apparently don't have ReiserFS support yet.

www.stellarinfo.com

[ANAND SWAROOP SRIVASTAVA]

OK..
I understand that, that is an indirect process to do that,

Anyway thanks for the idea.