Thoughts on undeleting ext3 files

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sat May 8 11:32:43 UTC 2004



bryan at redfedora.co.uk wrote:

>Subject: Thoughts on undeleting ext3 files
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>>Since this has come up, I was wondering if anyone has any ideas about
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>I always remember a guy from my formative years saying measure twice, cut
>once (carpentry) and I guess that is really apt in this scenario. Chalk it
>up to experience and don't make the mistake again. It is a tragic experience
>for the poor guy but he'll not make the same mistake as long as he lives, I
>guarantee it! We all mess up at some time and learn from it for our own
>benefit.
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>It looks like it's a remote server so maybe it'd be best to persuade someone
>at the location to do the necessary surgery and get it all back up and
>running again and keep the necessary data intact.
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They won't be able to log in, nor reboot from that disk.  :-(
Time for the rescue mode boot and then use ftp to get a similar copy of 
/etc that can be tailored.

And, yes it is a learning experience.  I did the 'rm -rf / ' trick once 
several years ago.  Never again. ;-)

>Bryan
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