On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 06:11 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 24 April 2009, jolmstead wrote: > >I screwed up and now I am in a bad spot. I hope someone can help me. I am > > pretty new to Linux. I am just taking my first course and setup a laptop > > with Fedora Core 10 and Windows Vista dual booting. > > > >Because of so many bugs and my lack of expertise my wife wanted me to move > > all of her OpenOffice.org files from the Linux operating system to Vista. > > So I thought I could just move everything from her home directory to the > > /media/disk directory and all would be good. > > > >Well, from the command prompt I created a folder in /media/disk and moved > > everything there. Then I booted into Vista and the folder wasn't there. I > > thought Windows maybe can't read the directory created by Linux so I went > > back to Linux and to my surprise it was missing from there too! Now it's > > nowhere to be found and I'm afraid everything she had is lost. Does anyone > > know of a way I can retrieve those files? > > I don't believe there is, unless someone has written an undelete for ext3. There is a way to undelete ext2 and ext3 files. It is called sleuthkit. It is a collection of programs whose operation is described in the current issue (may 2009) of Linux Journal in an article," When Disaster Strikes: Attack of the rm Command", by Kyle Rankin on page 30. Since it is the current issue even non-subscribers can probably see it on the Linux Journal web site. -- ======================================================================= When smashing monuments, save the pedstals -- they always come in handy. -- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Thoughts" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
