Accidental File Deletion

[Steven Pasternak]

Hi! I accidentally deleted some files on an ext3 Fedora 5 partition. Is 
there any way to un-delete them? They were deleted with the 'rm' 
command, so there is not a trash can with them. They weren't anything I 
can't live without, though. I just had some shell scripts under ~/bin 
that did simple things. Thanks!
-Steven

[Kevin Kempter]

If you've been running backups then arestore from your last backup is the only 
option, rm does what it is told and no more.

>  Hi! I accidentally deleted some files on an ext3 Fedora 5 partition.
> Is
>  there any way to un-delete them? They were deleted with the 'rm'
>  command, so there is not a trash can with them. They weren't anything I
>  can't live without, though. I just had some shell scripts under ~/bin
>  that did simple things. Thanks!
>  -Steven

[spmirowski]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
>  Hi! I accidentally deleted some files on an ext3 Fedora 5 partition.
>
>  Is there any way to un-delete them? They were deleted with the 'rm' 
>  command, so there is not a trash can with them. They weren't anything 
>  I can't live without, though. I just had some shell scripts under 
>  ~/bin that did simple things. Thanks!
>  -Steven
>  
ext3 doesn't allow for undeleting.  If you want a filesystem that allows 
recovery, reiserfs
is an option.

Stephen

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 13:48 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>  Hi! I accidentally deleted some files on an ext3 Fedora 5 partition.
> Is 
>  there any way to un-delete them? They were deleted with the 'rm' 
>  command, so there is not a trash can with them. They weren't anything I 
>  can't live without, though. I just had some shell scripts under ~/bin 
>  that did simple things. Thanks!
>  -Steven
>   
You are probably out of luck.
I seem to remember seeing a shell script that would mv files to the
trash rather that delete them, and was argument compatible with rm - so
that it could be used as a bash alias in place of rm.

If I remember - the -f switch did a real rm, but anything else got moved
to ~/.Trash/ or something.

I don't remember where I saw it.
Anyone know? It would be nice to have in the wiki.

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 12:49 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:

>  
>  If I remember - the -f switch did a real rm, but anything else got moved
>  to ~/.Trash/ or something.
>  
>  I don't remember where I saw it.
>  Anyone know? It would be nice to have in the wiki. 

http://www.ratrobot.com/programming/shell/page2.html

I don't think that was the one I recall - haven't tried it, but it looks
decent anyway.

I'll play with it and see if it works.

[Mikkel]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
>  Hi! I accidentally deleted some files on an ext3 Fedora 5 partition.
> Is
>  there any way to un-delete them? They were deleted with the 'rm'
>  command, so there is not a trash can with them. They weren't anything I
>  can't live without, though. I just had some shell scripts under ~/bin
>  that did simple things. Thanks!
>  -Steven
>   
Midnight Commander has an option for undeleting files on ext2 file
systems. You could try remounting the ext3 file system as ext2, and
 try that. You will need to be root. But if the inodes that the
files were using are now being used by new files, then you are out
of luck. (An ext3 file system is an ext2 file system with journaling
added, so you can mount it as ext2 and work on it.)

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:48 PM -0400 4/29/06, Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Hi! I accidentally deleted some files on an ext3 Fedora 5 partition.
> Is
> there any way to un-delete them? They were deleted with the 'rm'
> command, so there is not a trash can with them. They weren't anything I
> can't live without, though. I just had some shell scripts under ~/bin
> that did simple things. Thanks!
> -Steven 
Google on "ext2 undelete" and try some of the procedures.  In the mean
time, don't write /anything/ to that disk.  You probably already did, and
the data may have been overwritten.
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