A way to recover deleted files (just contents) from USF2

Daniel Lang dl at leo.org
Wed Apr 21 05:43:56 PDT 2004


Hi,

Stuart Barkley wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:53:15PM -0400:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 at 15:08 +0200, Daniel Lang wrote:
> 
> > simple solution:
> >
> > alias rm="rm -i"
> 
> s/simple/horrible/
> 
> Go ahead and set this up on your system and start relying upon it.
> Then help a friend on his system and wipe out all his files because
> you started relying upon the non-standard behavior.

Ok, I should have added some ";-)" signs. But I did say
that I would _not_ recommend this. However, an 'unrm'
feature based on UFS-snapshots, lazy unlinking or 
shell-functions would be a similar 'non-standard' behaviour
and not any better in this regard.

Best regards,
 Daniel
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