Re: Accidental deletion. Help please!

Vilmos Soti (vilmos@xxxxxxx) writes:
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

To prevent anything being added to the partition while it's mounted?
The point of the process is that you want to "freeze" that partition
as soon as possible, because once you start doing anything to it, it
moves it further away from any recovery.

I've mangled floppy disks in decades past, and as tiresome as it can
be to do any recovery, if only the directoy got mangled it was relatively
easy. But the moment something more is written to the floppy, it's
game over, since it may overwrite what you want to restore.

Michael

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