Re: ext3 and undeletion

Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-26T18:45:01Z

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > All the deleted files, with the correct path(s), are now in the
> > top directory file the file-system ../lost+found directory. They
> > are still owned by the original user, still subject to the same
> > quota. The disk space can't run out because you have simply moved
> > files that didn't exceed the disk space before they were moved.
> >
>
>
> Ummm... it never occurred to you why someone would delete files in the
> first place?
>
> -hpa

Yep. They probably thought they had changed directory to some scratch
file-system and they were cleaning it up! Most wildcard deletions are
truly accidental like this :

ls .c>* # woops, made a file called '*', I'll fix it..
rm * # Good, now back to work...
ls *.c >files

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321