From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k7T5dEDW005171 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:39:20 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x31so2492119pye for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:38:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "gert wohlgemuth" Subject: RE: accidently deleted files from directory Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:28:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20060829041635.GA3166@tuatara.stupidest.org> Message-ID: <44f3c278.059fc255.3075.3597@mx.gmail.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: 'Chris Wedgwood' Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Thx, I thought so that the data are gone and it's to much to glue it, cause all binary data. So time to step back to ext2, here at least I can restore the data in the worst case. ...not that it ever happens again... g. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wedgwood [mailto:cw@f00f.org] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:17 PM To: gert wohlgemuth Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: accidently deleted files from directory On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:05:30PM -0700, gert wohlgemuth wrote: > On the weekend it happens that I accidentally deleted 1 TB of data > (rm -rdf /mnt/lcq). We have no backup of the data (internal reasons > of the university...) and it would be nice to get the data somehow > back. ouch > after I did a cat /dev/sda1 | less I could see that some data are still > exist and are not overwritten. So I think "all" what I have todo is some how > get the journal back. that won't suffice, the metadata showing where all the files are is likely gone > Is there anyway or is all hope lost? if you know what the data looks like heuristically scan for it and try to glue the fragments back together...