Bonehead Move

[Tod Merley]

On 2/13/07, Tod <tod at stthomasepc.org> wrote:
> I love cutting and pasting to and from my xterm.  This time however I
> cut and pasted a preceding space from the directory name I was trying to
> rm -fr.  Thus I ended up doing rm -fr ./ mydir.  Goodbye home dir.
>
> I quickly shut down and imaged the hard drive onto another server.
> Doing a little research I discovered I could mount the image using a
> loopback device.  I wanted to try running foremost or some other tool to
> see what I could recover.
>
> I got the loopback working and can see all the partitions in the image.
>  Since its a volume managed device I'm now stuck.  I can see the
> partitions but I can't think of how to get around the lvm part to mount
> them and see the actual contents.  I'm not that lvm proficient quite yet.
>
> Does anybody have any hits?  Anybody maybe have some experience making
> this type of mistake and have some advice on trying to recover the data
> from it?
>
> And yes, I am now in the process of implementing a backup system :(
>
>
> TIA - Tod
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Hi Tod!

For what it is worth I get a lot of hits googling "Linux file
recovery" or "Linux file recovery free" yields a lot of hits (too
many).  "Linux file recovery Helix" (Helix is a Knoppix based computer
forensics distribution) results are also interesting.

Good Hunting!

Tod