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Re: How to undelete files..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (colonel panic)
Thu Nov 14 22:19:50 1996
From: colonel panic <mudling@st2184.tc.tufts.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:12:42 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <m0vO7IJ-001G1cC@iceonline.com> from "Borg" at Nov 14, 96 11:18:01 am
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Borg
>
> Ho See Chung wrote:
> >
> > I have carelessly deleted some important files. Is there a way to recover
> > them. Or, is there a way to prevent this from happening again. Like some
> > program which can back up a copy for u automaticaly, ie, any rpm package
> > that do this?
>
> I am afraid undeleting is not possible. For backing up
> my data and system config files on my home computer I
I'm sure we all have some horror story :(
But has anyone tried to implement a sort of mac/win95 (shudder)
trash bin type thing, something real simple, like aliasing rm
to mv <filename> /tmp/trash. Then you click on the trash icon
and it wipes this directory out.
I've read in Donald Norman's book, _The Psychology of Everyday Things_
that forcing something, such as, alias rm rm -i just doesn't cut it,
because people confirm the action, and not the file that is to be deleted.
Also, when a file is deleted, isn't it just unlinked from
the inode table, so can't you use some program to seek for those
unlinked blocks and link them back again? providing the data wasn't
already been overwritten.
-steve-
http://st2184.tc.tufts.edu
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