actually this is more or less impoissble. Normally if a file in linux is gone, it's gone :) however, I've seen an undelete for ext2fs once, never tried it. On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Hart Larry wrote: > Well, I wish I had not made this error, but I was useing lynx to browse-and-tag > mp3s for deletion last Friday evening. Well, when I hit r to remove the tagged > files, it asked me about removing mp3? Well, I wasn't paying enough > attention--and just hit a y. Not hearing anything for several seconds, I > realized what I had done, so I hit controll c. The final upshot was I had > nuked at least 7 sub-directories inside my main mp3 section. I did google > searches--and found a recover program, however, it will not work on ext3, only > ext2. Supposedly fsck has an undelete function but you must know the exact > file name. I tried running easyrecovery in windows with jaws, but was not > easily able to select drives or directories. The program with ext2 says it > would actually put the files back, as I may not have enough space to store them > on another drive. Also, in addition to ext3 I have some windows fats. > Obvious questions are, if there are any friendly programs and options I can run > in Fedora 1 to restore these files? > Thanks ever so much > Hart > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004 vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list