Hello all, Yesterday I moved using the mv command in Redhat 7.2 ext3 file system to move to /tmp my /mnt/win98/"My Pictures" directory to tmp. The command executed normally, and I actually verified that the subdir was created in /tmp and the files were there in /tmp/"My Pictures" I was doing this to temporarily free space on my vfat windows 98 partition. When I went to move the pictures back today, after shutting the system down last night ALL of the subdirectories and pictures except the last one in the list 'Unfiled photos' were GONE. The same thing occurred with "My Music" using the same operation. "My Music" is there, as well as the last subdir, but nothing else is. All of "My Music" is restorable from CD, most of the pictures are on CD with the exception of my baby's 1st birthday which was two weeks ago and had not been backed up yet. They are jpg's with codes like: p3180010.jpg I sure would like to have these pictures back as they were the only ones taken of his 1st birthday. Can anyone help? -- IV
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:57:49PM -0500, Ignacio Valdes wrote:> I was doing this to temporarily free space on my vfat windows 98 > partition. When I went to move the pictures back today, after shutting > the system down last night ALL of the subdirectories and pictures exceptYou probably have something that cleans up stale files /tmp on bootup.> I sure would like to have these pictures back as they were the only ones > taken of his 1st birthday. Can anyone help?Dunno if this works with ext3 but with ext2 (I keep my /tmp as ext2 for speed... it's small and doesn't really need to be ext3 IMO) you could run the mc command (midnight commander). it has undel features (man mc). also, you might wanna try some undel software on the vfat partition out of dos. All this depends on you not writing to the partition involved. -- CORUSCANT-Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims of the attack on the Death Star, the Emperor declared that while recent victories over the Rebel Alliance were "encouraging, the War on Terror is not over yet." - http://www.zip.com.au/~cat/misc/txt/waronterror.txt
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:57:49PM -0500, Ignacio Valdes wrote:> Hello all, > > Yesterday I moved using the mv command in Redhat 7.2 ext3 file system to > move to /tmp my /mnt/win98/"My Pictures" directory to tmp. The command > executed normally, and I actually verified that the subdir was created > in /tmp and the files were there in /tmp/"My Pictures" > > I was doing this to temporarily free space on my vfat windows 98 > partition. When I went to move the pictures back today, after shutting > the system down last night ALL of the subdirectories and pictures except > the last one in the list 'Unfiled photos' were GONE. The same thing > occurred with "My Music" using the same operation. "My Music" is there, > as well as the last subdir, but nothing else is. All of "My Music" is > restorable from CD, most of the pictures are on CD with the exception of > my baby's 1st birthday which was two weeks ago and had not been backed > up yet. They are jpg's with codes like: p3180010.jpg > > I sure would like to have these pictures back as they were the only ones > taken of his 1st birthday. Can anyone help?Many distribution init scripts will delete all files in /tmp on boot. In debian you can tell it to only delete files a certain number of days old in /etc/defaults/rcS. You are now in the world of ext2/3 undelete. With ext3 things are much worse because some of the filesystem meta-data is zeroed out upon unlink because of some journaling requirement(I haven't seen any explanation as to *why* this is so hard to remove in ext3). If you wish to try, you should stop using the ext3 filesystem that contains /tmp *immediately*. Mike
perhaps the mc command can help, look at the man page. On Tue, 7 May 2002, Ignacio Valdes wrote:> Hello all, > > Yesterday I moved using the mv command in Redhat 7.2 ext3 file system to > move to /tmp my /mnt/win98/"My Pictures" directory to tmp. The command > executed normally, and I actually verified that the subdir was created > in /tmp and the files were there in /tmp/"My Pictures" > > I was doing this to temporarily free space on my vfat windows 98 > partition. When I went to move the pictures back today, after shutting > the system down last night ALL of the subdirectories and pictures except > the last one in the list 'Unfiled photos' were GONE. The same thing > occurred with "My Music" using the same operation. "My Music" is there, > as well as the last subdir, but nothing else is. All of "My Music" is > restorable from CD, most of the pictures are on CD with the exception of > my baby's 1st birthday which was two weeks ago and had not been backed > up yet. They are jpg's with codes like: p3180010.jpg > > I sure would like to have these pictures back as they were the only ones > taken of his 1st birthday. Can anyone help? > > -- IV > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >