David Malone wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:20:32PM -0400, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote:
>
> > One of my users deleted a directory.
> > It is not in the backups.
> > Is there a way to recover? Is there a script that looks at the file systems
> > and recovers lost file pointers, I imagine that the info might still be on
> > the hard drive, just the sector was marked as usable..
>
> If you're feeling really brave, and what was deleted was text then you
> could try running strings on the raw disk device and grepping for the
> data you're looking for. It works somethimes if you're lucky.
>
> strings /dev/rda0s1a | grep -10000 "keyword"
Its a good idea to boot remount the affected file systems read-only ASAP
as well.
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