Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:47:21 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: ext3 and undeletion |
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > All the deleted files, with the correct path(s), are now in the > > top directory file the file-system ../lost+found directory. They > > are still owned by the original user, still subject to the same > > quota. The disk space can't run out because you have simply moved > > files that didn't exceed the disk space before they were moved. > > > > > Ummm... it never occurred to you why someone would delete files in the > first place? > > -hpa
Yep. They probably thought they had changed directory to some scratch file-system and they were cleaning it up! Most wildcard deletions are truly accidental like this :
ls .c>* # woops, made a file called '*', I'll fix it.. rm * # Good, now back to work... ls *.c >files
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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