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 
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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