[Sussex] Aargh!

[Chris Jones]

Hi

On Sun, 19 June, 2005 23:29, Rupert Swarbrick said:
> "Hmm.. Why is this taking so long.... AArgh!! Wrong directory!"

For the record, the very second you have this realisation, you need to
stop writing to the disc immediately. Either rip the power out or very
quickly remount it ro. If you do this you prevent the fs from re-using all
the blocks it has just freed up, which means that various recovery
tools/techniques can be used to recover the data (google knows about
undeleting files on ext2/3). It's not a particularly pleasant procedure as
the filenames are usually lost, but it can make a really bad situation
slightly better :)

Cheerio,
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Chris Jones
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