Recovering files removed with rm -rf SOLVED

**bryansmith** · 11-23-2005

Hey everyone,

Is this possible? Some files were accidentaly deleted and I could really use them back.

*EDIT* I forgot to mention that the filesystem was fat32.

Bryan

**bryansmith** · 11-23-2005

Solved! Thankfully (it was all of my school work

)! For those who were wondering, I did it through Windows with Active@ UNDELETE.

**Ethyriel** · 11-23-2005

You really should consider switching to srm

pacman -Ss srm

**bryansmith** · 11-24-2005

Care to explain? The pacman description doesn't make much sense to me.

Bryan

**Ethyriel** · 11-24-2005

sorry, just a joke

It's a secured version of rm which thwarts data recovery by writing over the file before deleting it.

I'm glad you got your data back, I haven't been so lucky in the past.

**bryansmith** · 11-24-2005

Originally Posted by Ethyriel

sorry, just a joke

It's a secured version of rm which thwarts data recovery by writing over the file before deleting it.

I'm glad you got your data back, I haven't been so lucky in the past.

School makes my mind crazy so that could explain why I didn't get the joke.

Yeah, it was formatted as fat so it was as easy as simply getting a program off the net. Thank God! It could have been one terms worth of 2nd year university notes gone forever!

I was this:

and now I am this:

Bryan

**scm** · 11-26-2005

If inadvertent rm-ing is a habit you could write a script that mv's the rm'd files to a holding area, and alias rm to use that script. Then periodically flush the old stuff out of the holding area.

**bryansmith** · 11-26-2005

I usually don't have a bad habit of doing that but it is a great idea.

Thanks,
Bryan

**Ethyriel** · 11-26-2005

Come to think of it, Arch also has libtrash in the repository which does much the same.

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