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Undelete In Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the using-the-tools dept.

Manuel Arriaga writes "[To the editors: I am not a professional programmer, nor will I ever be one. My income does not depend on my computing/programming skills, and hopefully it never will. So promoting free software I wrote does not help me in any financial way, no matter how indirect. libtrash is free software (GPL2), and I distribute it for free from my website. I have nothing to gain from the increased exposure, except for knowing that I am helping others. And I know slashdot isn't freshmeat... With that out of the way:] I have seen this topic discussed in the LKML multiple times by now, and many more people asking in the newsgroups why "I can't recover my deleted file on GNU/Linux". Here is my answer to that question. libtrash gives Linux a real "trash can". And it has been doing so (with varying degrees of stability) for more than one year now. If you consider it appropriate, make this information public on slashdot."

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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    did it again...

  2. First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post recovered from ext2fs! phew!

  3. EFFPEE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FirshProsh!

  4. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post?

  5. Ahh.... by ez_TAB · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    An entire slashdot thread in 3 posts! (1 flaming, one crying for compassion and one pointing out this has been covered before)

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    1. Re:Ahh.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dont forget the inevitable meta whine, a slashdot thread isn't complete without one.

  6. Re:Wake-up call by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you serious? How about "slashdot isn't a shoulder to cry on". It's been a long time since I read such a pile of self loathing apologetic fodder.

  7. Re:Recycle Bins - don't you just hate them? by fruey · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Recycle Bins - don't you just hate them? (Score:1, Redundant)

    That's what I just saw. How is this redundant? I posted as soon as I saw the article, and so whoever modded it must not be sorting by date. I take my time making posts so some short post got up on me. Oh well. At least the replies to this thread are interesting.

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  8. I love the name "libtrash" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this shorthand for "liberal trash" like Al Gore, The Clintons, Janet Reno, Dick (and I mean Dick) Gephardt and Tom Daschel??

  9. Re:Recycle Bins - don't you just hate them? by the+way,+what're+you · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In linux you might do something like rm *a*b*c*.* That command can delete anywhere from 0 to all of your files depending on how they are named. And if you accidentally type *a*f*c*.* you might delete the wrong thing.

    Yeah, it's a bitch when you try to delete "hot_asian_blowjob_cumshot.avi", but accidentally wipe out "young_anal_fucktoy001.mpg" through "young_anal_fucktoy999.mpg".

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  10. Article too verbose. by wunderhorn1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Editors (hemos), couldn't you have done a little editing and taken out his quaint but wordy disclaimers? He addressed those sentences specifically to you anyway, leaving them in for everyone to read just looks amateurish and is annoying to read through while looking for the actual story.

    Thanks.

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