Undeleting (possible?)

[Rene Ladan]

Fernando Schapachnik schreef:
> Data recovery scenario (on 6.2): mistake while messing with Mail directory...
> 
> cd ~
> mv Mail/xMail ..
> rm -r xMail (should have rm'ed Mail)
> No extra writes to the filesystem. Plenty of extra space.
> 
> Now I want to recover xMail (contains mbox files). sleuthkit only finds Mail/xMail with no content. It also doesn't find any of the contained mboxes.
> 
> Is there still hope? My (limited) understanding is the content should be more or less intact. Problem is: how do I find it?
> 
Maybe rm -W helps?  I've never tried it seriously myself though.

Regards,
Rene
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