From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James Miller" Subject: Re: SOS: restore deleted file on ext3 system; CORRECTION--it's reiserfs Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:05:35 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: James Miller [mailto:jamtat@mailsnare.net] >Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 09:25 AM >To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org >Subject: SOS: restore deleted file on ext3 system > >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. > >Thanks, James > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs