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From: jamiller@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: undeleting files....
Message-ID: <-286539952@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 90 16:22:53 GMT
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Not really, since most everything is virtual in U*ix, once a file is
rm'ed the disc space will/may be reused, possibly immediately.  Just about
everything you do does a fork, which uses more disk space, etc.  So
as long as no one has done a ls, or logged out, or logged in, or ... :-(

Someone may have some tool that will help you patch a file together
specifying sectors and some such.  But getting that program will use
disc space ...

Unless the file is HUGE, and it's worth the work of patching it
together with missing hunks, I'd say you S.O.L. (Sure(:-) Out of Luck)

I have my "rm" aliased to "mv $* ~/.trash"  but one has to remember to
empty the trash ("rm!" invokes the real thing).  That way I can recover
from accidental "rm *"  (last week I wanted to "rm *.bak" and typed
"rm * .bak" by mistake).  -- misc note: this is about the only exception
I have to the rule "don't alias normal command names"!

Hope I'm wrong and some white knight comes to your aid -- but don't
count on it.


   jim miller
   Standard disclaimer + I just use it, I'm not a HP-UX wizard.