On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Elliott Hird<penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/27 comex <com...@gmail.com>: >> A few days ago, I mistakenly untarred a large bunch of files into my >> home directory. I tried to delete the files by piping the output of a >> listing to xargs rm -r... I had a bit too much success. The first >> entry in the list was '.', and a significant chunk of my home >> directory was deleted... > > Do I *really* have to say the obvious thing right now? I would like to > say the obvious thing right now. Also, try ext3grep or whatever; one > o' them thingies.
It was on my Mac, but I tried some data recovery software, no avail, tried strings, but by that time I'd probably overwritten it. This is the kind of thing I shouldn't have to do. There's no good reason rm shouldn't be reversible... I think I'm going to switch /home/comex and /usr/src on my desktop to ext3cow. -- -c.
