Its my understanding that if you are using ext3 - you are SOL. for ext2 there are various "undelete" tools available - though I can't think of any off the top of my head. Probably different for each file system type. Dan Raymond Norton 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? > > > >Raymond > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >