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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. What a drag by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have been using computers for over 20 years. I have never, ever, ever 'accidently' deleted an important file.

    I'm smart enough to know what 'delete' does. I don't need to be asked if I'm sure. (Yeah, on second thought I don't want to delete it?). And I don't need to have a recovery system if I delete a file.

    One of the more charming aspects of *nix is that it's designed by and for people who have a clue. The more you make it easy to use by the common user, the more it becomes bastardized.

    Why do I see linux not including a command line in 5 years.

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  2. Re:One solution by chegosaurus · · Score: 1, Troll

    > Yes, it's completely non-standard but could just be a simple perl script that moves those
    > files somewhere

    $ du -sk /opt/perl5
    20801
    $ find /opt/perl5 | wc -l
    1194

    Yep, I need 20Mb of Perl installation spread over 1194 files to do that. How elegant.

  3. well there goes half my server room... by pestihl · · Score: 0, Troll


    I'm so happy this exsits.. now I don't need to maintain those god awful daily backup / restore deamons..

    lol..

    You opensource developers always amaze me.

    another option... for those who have a yard of paper work to go through to install anything from the net....

    just remove the rm command and, alias it to copy /usr/home/$usrname/trashcan..

    I can't really see the difference... it also gets backup nightly.. lol... don't forget to kill the ftp->rm function.

    -nasu

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