On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:57:49PM -0500, Ignacio Valdes wrote: > Hello all, > > Yesterday I moved using the mv command in Redhat 7.2 ext3 file system to > move to /tmp my /mnt/win98/"My Pictures" directory to tmp. The command > executed normally, and I actually verified that the subdir was created > in /tmp and the files were there in /tmp/"My Pictures" > > I was doing this to temporarily free space on my vfat windows 98 > partition. When I went to move the pictures back today, after shutting > the system down last night ALL of the subdirectories and pictures except > the last one in the list 'Unfiled photos' were GONE. The same thing > occurred with "My Music" using the same operation. "My Music" is there, > as well as the last subdir, but nothing else is. All of "My Music" is > restorable from CD, most of the pictures are on CD with the exception of > my baby's 1st birthday which was two weeks ago and had not been backed > up yet. They are jpg's with codes like: p3180010.jpg > > I sure would like to have these pictures back as they were the only ones > taken of his 1st birthday. Can anyone help? Many distribution init scripts will delete all files in /tmp on boot. In debian you can tell it to only delete files a certain number of days old in /etc/defaults/rcS. You are now in the world of ext2/3 undelete. With ext3 things are much worse because some of the filesystem meta-data is zeroed out upon unlink because of some journaling requirement(I haven't seen any explanation as to *why* this is so hard to remove in ext3). If you wish to try, you should stop using the ext3 filesystem that contains /tmp *immediately*. Mike
