On 2001-10-15, Chris Grigor wrote: >Oh dear, oh dear oh dear....what could the matter be???
Oh dear, please try to avoid HTML mail! >Before any of you ask I have not made a backup,...........so I know its >stupid not to and its my own fault....... > >I am in need of some help here... I run Redhat 7.1 and for some unknown >reason >all the user dirs in /home have gone.... I have had a look through my >history file to see if I >ran rm -rf /home by mistake..but no I can tell you I didnt..... rm -rf /home would also remove /home and not just the user dirs. Is /home still there? >I have tried >using mc (midnight commander) >to get a listing back, but Im not to good with it, does anyone know how I >can get all of the files back??? First of all, don't touch the partition that contains /home. Mount it read-only if possible until you've managed to recover some files. One nice utility to do that is: http://recover.sourceforge.net Do not use mc to undelete files. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
