On 6/13/05, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote:
> Long story, but I just deleted everything in /root. I have never really
> needed to recover anything in linux, so the tools are new to me. I tried
> recover and debugfs, but they show "0 deleted inodes found".
> 
> Debugfs /dev/sda2 shows:
> 2  (12) .    2  (12) ..    11  (20) lost+found    9388033  (12) boot
>  16875521  (12) dev    18268161  (12) proc    8568833  (12) sys
>  546237  (28) .autofsck    18186241  (12) var    6963201  (12) tmp
>  8896513  (12) etc    7716866  (12) root    1605633  (12) usr
>  14827521  (12) lib    11567105  (12) bin    19005441  (12) home
>  18497537  (16) initrd    17121281  (12) mnt    3162113  (12) opt
>  11911169  (12) sbin    7274497  (16) selinux    2048001  (12) misc
>  5832705  (16) tftpboot    6733825  (20) .automount    32769  (12) udev
>  4407298  (64) data    15  (3688) .fonts.cache-1
> 
> Any idea how to successfully retrieve the data?

I'm going to be sarcastic, "you do have backups, right?"

scot