Oswald opined,
> well ... i don't remember their names. i found some of them by searching > freshmeat.net and doing a generic web search for "linux disk editor" *DOH!* Now I feel foolish :) > or > something like that. i did not bookmark them, as they all were not very > satisfactory ... :-( Hmm, since it's a disk editor, it shouldn't be a problem that I'm using a linux disk editor to mess with a FATpartition, should it? "bits is bits" :) > on a unix-system you can search for deleted nodes - if you find any, > you have a good chance of recovering them (if the disk was not filled after > the deletion), but you'll never know, what the original name of the file > was (without guessing it by inspecting the contents). > (btw: i'm not really sure, that the allocation info in an inode is completely > preserved when it is marked as deleted (i did not read the how-to), but as > i see no reason to clear it ...) There was enough. I realised what I'd done as soon as I'd done it (rm -r * ~), with the extra space before ~ . . . I recovered one file I'd forgotten about, but not what I was after. I then ran dd | strings | grep -v <several times> to recover all of the text. (fortunately, lyx stores in text format [I've used diff/patch when editing an out of date version]). > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! hmm, this got through our detectors :) hawk --
