Re: Accidental deletion. Help please!

Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Well, I would first make sure that the partition was unmounted. Then I
would mount it read only, and use dd to make an exact copy of it to another
partition, and only work on that exact copy.

And why should he remount ro in order to dd?

Vilmos
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