URGENT: Lost Data

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:37:37PM -0700, 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???
> 
> -brian
>  
vi has an option for these situations. If your were editing a file foo
then your would execute: vi -r foo
but that will only load the .swp file which should be the file as it
was at the time of the power failure.
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industry is now in the American experience... We must not fail to 
comprehend its grave implications... We must guard against the 
acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military-industrial
complex.  The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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