Actually, now that I think about it, I deleted a whole directory.  Is there a
way I can put back the directory, and have it "magically" see all the files
again?  Just a wishful thought.

Thanks,
Jim

"Jim Herrmann"
<kclug@itdepends.com> wrote:

> Help!!  I have deleted some of my wife's
important files.  I need to undelete
> them.  I didn't use the KDE delete
where they would go to the trash, which was
> stupid.  I shut down the system
right away and am using knoppix live cd 3.2 to
> access the system.  The
partition containing the data I need to recover is on
> dev/hda6, which I have
unmounted.
> 
> 
> I have been searching on the internet for
> answers.  One
said to use midnight commander and type "cd undel:/dev/hda6" in
> mc, but that
just tells me no such file or directory.  Don't know where to go
> with
that.
> 
> Another suggests using "debugfs /dev/hda6" then lsdel, which
tells
> me 0 deleted inodes found.  This does not give me a good feeling
about
> this.
> 
> The other option I found is e2undel, which is not on the
knoppix disk,
> and I haven't been able to get it to compile.
> 
> Any
suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Herrmann
> 
>

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