Undeleting [] Linux files

Up 12/02


Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:44:29 -0600 (CST)
To: Kees Cook
From: Jno
Subject: holy shit

To tell it in code and psuedocode...

oops!! just blew away "jno" in /home. Meant to delete a file below ".." - that's what you get for allowing Lynx to see dot files.

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phew!! Two days it took. The actual work was a few hours. But I tried mc first (it had worked smoothly in the past), but it hung badly (had to kill it), and the directions are now incorrect. That took most of a day.

Got web documentation, compared two sets, picked the best combination (no - I dont have a spare partition somewhere of 130 Meg), avoided all caution (I do have a Win backup of a month ago), and just started in.

The only good practice I have is that the "jno" home directory is more of a scratch file than anything else. When I lost it I had just downloaded and edited a couple hundred files, but only one minor one was still in /home/jno, all the final copies had been moved elsewhere. Just the same, gotta get "backup" organized better.

bye /jno


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