[KLUG Members] help for longtime (but novice) user who finally managed to misuse rm...?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > My home (user) directory--and logged in as a regular user.  So the  
> > good news is, the system shouldn't be disturbed.  The bad news is,  
> > the deleted files are of actual importance to me personally!
> This is why I have AT LEAST 2 copies of everything, sometimes 3, and  
> always preach the importance of backups.
> >> I don't know about logdump, but maybe it's a jfs only command?
> >> You need to run the ext2/3 commands on an ext3 partition.
> > Yes, I think it's part of a JFS package.  I did run it on an ext3  
> > partition, but /while/ that partition was mounted and being used.   
> > (I only have one linux partition besides /boot.)  Should I reboot  
> > to a rescuecd, with the linux partition unmounted, and run logdump  
> > off that?  Where do I put the output file then?  I'm nervous to  
> > reboot in case I destroy "evidence", but maybe I should.
> have any new files been written to the drive since the other files  
> were deleted?
> If so, the space the files occupied may have already been partially  
> overwritten.

And even the action of logging in and out of the workstation may do
this.
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