On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I
> couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. I had
> already looked at Midnight commander but your additions were helpful as I
> only saw the information about undeleting from the command line. The
> information wasn't life-or-death and I learned a lot in the process. As
> for backups, I'm really sorry but i can't figure out what a MO disk is.
> Unfortunately, the only facilities I have right now for doing backup of
> any kind is the old floppy, and I probably should have had this data on
> floppy. I'd love to have a backup system, and you'll get no argument from
> me against its importance, but the reality is that I don't have one right
> now.
No, it isn't.
For "backups" that prevent against accidental erasure of a file, do
a "man rcsintro" if you are only worried about text files, and man
cvs if you have to work with binary files.
> This incident also points out the wisdom in having your linux system
> mounted on several partitions so that in cases like this you can unmount
> the partition immediately.
> As for the trash can, it wouldn't do any good if your hard disk breaks but
> could be an asset in momentarily slips of the fingers (or the brain) such
> as I had.
Disks don't go bad nearly as often as people have thinkos.
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