From: "James Miller" <jamtat@mailsnare.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: SOS: restore deleted file on ext3 system
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:25:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <W7012113546167841137770722@mail.mailsnare.net> (raw)
I spent all day yesterday revising a chapter of a work I'm writing. Since I've had trouble ftp'ing files to/from my ftp server, I just emailed the file to myself so I could access it from the library where I was working. Unfortunately, I told the browser to open the file with the default application (OpenOffice) when I loaded the file from email, rather than having it save it to disk. I failed to note that, therefore, the file I was editing was located in the /tmp directory. I finished editing, having saved numerous times while I worked, and shut down the computer. Today, when I started the system I realized my error and understood that, since I'm using a Debian variant (Xandros), and since Debian's habit is to delete the contents of /tmp on each reboot, the file I spent all day yesterday working on is simply gone. The system uses the ext3 filesystem, btw. Can anyone help me to re
cover this file so I don't end up having wasted a whole day? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, James
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