[plug] HELP! File recovery

[Paul Baumgarten]

Thanks to all the people who offered advise to my little rm misadventure.

My server is plugged in again and I have my precious C code back.

As a reference for others the successful forumla I used was:

# egrep -200 "string_that_I_know_is_in_my_file" /dev/hdc1 >
~/output_dump_file
# strings ~/output_dump_file | less

I was actually quite impressed.  egrep took only 5 minutes to scan through
the contents of a 6 Gb HDD.

(note this rescue will work on text files)

Regards

Paul Baumgarten (email: paul at kcc.wa.edu.au)
Information Systems Manager
Kingsway Christian College
157 Kingsway, Landsdale, WA, 6065
Ph: +61 8 9409 7078
Fx: +61 8 9409 6179

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Baumgarten <paul at kcc.wa.edu.au>
To: Perth Linux Users Group <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:12 AM
Subject: [plug] HELP! File recovery


> Anyone know of a way to recover a file deleted by mistake on a ext2
> filesystem?  I only just did it (I thought I had a -i set on my rm
command).
> I have pulled the ethernet cable on the relevant server to ensure that the
> disk space doesn't get over written by some other user.  Can any one
help???
>
> Paul Baumgarten (email: paul at kcc.wa.edu.au)
> Information Systems Manager
> Kingsway Christian College
> 157 Kingsway, Landsdale, WA, 6065
> Ph: +61 8 9409 7078
> Fx: +61 8 9409 6179
>
>