Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!onion!riddle!domo
From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recovery ofremoved files
Message-ID: <591@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 20:51:28 GMT
References: <367@axis.fr>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
Lines: 21
Keywords: rm command, files recover
Summary: Possible, if system shut down at once after damage done

In article <367@axis.fr> inra@axis.fr (Inst. Natl. Rech. Agronomique) writes:
>
>After rm command is it possible to recover removed files

Probably not, particularly if you made your posting from the system you
deleted the files on.  However, a paper presented at the Winter 88 Usenix
conference in Dallas, entitled something like  _What to do after you type
rm *_ gives a number of strategies which, used together, can recover well
over 90% of the data in deleted files on System V and Xenix systems
PROVIDED THAT THE SYSTEM IS SHUT DOWN AT ONCE following the accident. 
The author was from an outfit in San Francisco which has found itself
specialising in this type of business after somebody brought them an
Altos system, having done something stupid (cat > valuable), then yanked
the power plug -- which turned out to be a smart move.  Regret I can't
give an exact citation, as I don't have the proceedings to hand.  Help,
somebody?

Good luck.
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp