From: "James Miller" <jamtat@mailsnare.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SOS: restore deleted file on ext3 system; CORRECTION--it's reiserfs
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:05:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <W7298030047311301137773135@mail.mailsnare.net> (raw)
I made a mistake about the filesystem on the machine. It's reiserfs, not ext3. reiser 3.x, I believe. One large partition on the machine (/dev/hda2 = 38GB; hda1 is swap).
James
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>Subject: SOS: restore deleted file on ext3 system
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>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 r
ecover this file so I don't end up having wasted a whole day? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks, James
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-20 16:05 James Miller [this message]
2006-01-20 17:09 ` SOS: restore deleted file on ext3 system; CORRECTION--it's reiserfs Carl
2006-02-01 22:23 ` tune2fs question James Miller
2006-02-02 3:40 ` James Miller
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