25 Sep
2004
25 Sep
'04
08:05
Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
If the file is (mainly) text, you can use grep as root on the raw partition. This requires quite a lot of guesswork and a lot of free space on another partition (Windows? /tmp?) to dump the grep output. Check man grep for what grep can do. The kind of command you might be looking for is # grep -E Alberto /dev/hda12 -A 5000 -a > /tmp/recover -- JDL