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

[Steve Petersen]

Hey folks,

Thanks again for your patience.  To sum up:  I am looking for a way to 
find out what files I accidentally erased, using JFS tools presumably. 
  I tried the rescuecd but again there are "superblock" problems, and 
again that means nothing to me.

I thought the point of a journaling file system was (at least partly) to 
make it easy to see what has happened to files?!

Thanks,
Steve

Steve Petersen wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  I do keep backups of my key files, 
> but I don't back up /everything/--for example my 50G of mp3s from my CD 
> collection.  It just costs too much to have that redundant (especially 
> since they're redundant in my CD's already, so to speak).  I was just 
> hoping to find out which files had been erased so I could assess the 
> damage, root for backups, re-rip lost mp3s, etc.  From the little 
> research I did, you can't (easily) recover files in ext3 like you can in 
> ext2, for a technical reason I don't understand well.
> 
> I'll try the rescuecd and see where it lets me write the logdump while 
> the partition in question is not mounted (yes, it's all one partition, 
> except /boot, as per RH8-for-Dummies recommendations of the time).
> 
> Thanks again!
> Steve