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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I thought the point of a journaling file system was (at least partly) to 
> > make it easy to see what has happened to files?!
> Journals are internal to the system and not for human consumption to
> "see what happened to the files".

I'm not aware of any filesystem auditing system for Linux below the
network level.

> And Journals provide NO protection against user mistakes.  It assumes
> that if you tell it to remove a file, that you mean it, and it's gone.

Having deleted files recoverable would be a massive security problem.  

> Use file managers with "trash folders" to prevent hat kind of thing.
> > > 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).  
> It's a time vs. money thing, and something only you can decide.
> You can buy a 200-300 GB drive for about $100 these days.  So backing up
> 50GB of data costs $25 or less.  If you'd rather spend the time ripping
> all the CD's again, as opposed to spending $25, then you made the right
> decision.  Depends on how much you consider your time to be worth.

Yep,  I bought an external USB drive (~80Gb) for something like $75.00.
Backing up my laptop takes about 15 minutes,  then periodically I attach
the USB drive to a real machine and back that up to a tape.

> Redhat usually installs a program called "locate".  It keeps a list of
> all files in a database somewhere.  It may be possible to read that
> database somehow (never checked into it).  

And the journal isn't very big,  data gets rolled over pretty quick.
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