URGENT: Lost Data
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 22:59:49 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:37, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> During an open vi session on a source file, the bossman lost a months
> worth of work during a power failure. When power was restored he copied
> a .swp file back thinking it was an older version of the source.
>
> I feel really dumb asking this; but is there any think I can attempt for
> data recovery on a FC3/ext3 machine to try and recover this file???
Did you try 'vi -r' to read the .swp file?
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Les Mikesell
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