Re: undo rm -r??
Re: undo rm -r??
- Subject: Re: undo rm -r??
- From: "Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:12:16 -0800
Quoting Eugene Lee (email@hidden):
: Hi, I did something really stupid and need to try
: to recover my home folder after a rm -r
On any standard Unix sysstem, "rm" wipes the files with no chance of
Back in the days when Norton knew how to write software. There was
file recovery software for all of the major Unix systems.
I believe that most (Unix) file systems just free the inodes, leaving
the data untouched.
recovery. On OS X, you could always take these drastic steps:
1. unplug all power (do not do a normal shutdown)
2. reboot off of an external volume and run a file recovery app
3. hope for the best
Assuming you are running HFS+, right?
Brian
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