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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:47:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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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

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

        111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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