[plug] Accidently saved to /tmp in OO.o

caston at arach.net.au caston at arach.net.au
Mon Oct 2 14:43:37 WST 2006


Quoting Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz89 at gmail.com>:


> Debian-based distros usually clean out /tmp on every boot. I got
> caught out by this at work once and wiped out a WHOLE bunch of stuff
> (NFS mounted), the manager wasn't too pleased.. Suffice to say, /tmp
> is about as volatile a storage as they come and should be considered
> so. Sorry to hear about the data loss.
> 
> Tomasz
> _______________________________________________


For this purpose I guess it was almost a good thing as I had to do the questions
again put those neurons and synapses through their paces.

Your data loss sounds quite bad though. I hope there was a backup.

Is there a modern file system that allows undelete other than NTFS?

regards,

Chris

 







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