On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:45:05 -0500 Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Adel ESSAFI wrote: > > > >> if I delete some files with rm; is it possible to restore them? > > > > I recently undeleted some photos, using testdisk. > > Basically, you have to specify what kind of files you are looking for. > > In my case I specified JPG. > > > > The process worked well, recovering dozens of JPG files, > > including those I was looking for. > > But I found the testdisk documentation almost completely unintelligible. > > Looking again, I see that > <http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk:_undelete_file_for_ext2> > explains reasonably clearly what to do. Thanks very much! I stand corrected from my previous answer which appears to have been out of inadequate knowledge. So, how does one "really delete" a file then? This is one more reason I am such a fan of this mailing list! Ranjan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines