From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Aug  7 00:34:12 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C64E16A4DA
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon,  7 Aug 2006 00:34:12 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com)
Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF2243D55
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon,  7 Aug 2006 00:34:10 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com)
Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g2so1193324nfe
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references;
	b=VYCNYHAuvGPpzqYgV2TxPgTaX3XetgxSooujRctTcofGRhPI6GXAbWxblFtNQzYBDE3YolSPS/9FaBdduu4dGAIqthM0M1E0BXmvgQLBOjHLv+SkzOGveFc+oNKfO++IFNQIO69nBbIrcarlAbxQe62x36tlQ1dE2jQsN73ySos=
Received: by 10.78.136.7 with SMTP id j7mr2214474hud;
	Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.78.141.18 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 17:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <a25afc300608061734y359e1602u747733ac4347f57e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 08:34:09 +0800
From: "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com>
To: "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060806180115.05b25278@msdi.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060806180115.05b25278@msdi.ca>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: urgent: I just rm-r a directory
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:34:12 -0000

On 8/7/06, Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote:
>
> I did a rm-r by mistake on a directory... any way to recover ?
>
> Help please :(
>
> _

if you don't have back ups of the directory concerned, i'm sorry to inform
you that you won't be able to recover it. a word of advise, at least make
the rm with -i switch to make it interactive, that way it will ask you first
before deleting, good thing though it's not your "/" you deleted :D