Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:36:46 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: David Loszewski <dave@bsdadmins.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: undo a rm -rf Message-ID: <20030607043646.GA27879@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <001201c32cab$7a968360$0200a8c0@hades> References: <001201c32cab$7a968360$0200a8c0@hades>
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:15:50AM -0400 or thereabouts, David Loszewski seemed to write: > I just did a rm -rf and forgot the *.png portion > that I wanted on it, lol, 2 years of using freebsd > and I've never done anything this stupid. Is there > a way to get my data back? Please respond to this email address. Short answer: No. Medium answer: Restore it from a backup. What? You weren't making backups? I guess you will from now on... Oh, if you unmounted the filesystem RIGHT AWAY (drop to single user), you may be able to recover the files (a slim chance :-) Google for "recover-files-after-rm". HTH, -- Josh > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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