[svlug] oops, undoing rm on a sub-dir on Acomdata external HD

[James Sparenberg]

On Thursday 05 June 2008 04:09:59 pm Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> hi
> 
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Brandon Trussell 
<brandon2k3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > When I delete files from an external drive, using nautilus, it moves 
them
> > to a .Trash directory at the root of the mount point.
> >
> > Ex:
> > If the drive is mounted at /media/disk, there is a hidden folder 
created
> > there by the file explorer called, .Trash.
> 
> 
> I did find files there, but they were empty files.  As luck would have 
it, I
> did find the files that I had deleted elsewhere in a backup file, but 
I
> didn't have access to that backup dir at the time that I wrote the 
initial
> email.  It would be good to know how to recover files in case this 
happens
> again.  So the question is:  how to recover files if the files 
in .Trash are
> empty files?
> 

google is your friend.  One thing.  the concept of a trashcan in Linux 
is a fairly new one.  Most of the old timers (like myself) either have 
multiple copies all over the place or have learned to backup like mad.  
I also admit to have files that "If I loose 'em so what"   I still 
believe that RAID was invented by someone too lazy to do backups. ;)

OK.... partitial maybe recovery. (google is your friend!)

http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/recovery-howto.html

otherwise.  goodluck.  

James