Ivar Rosquist wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:04:23 -0800, Chris Sorenson wrote:
>
>
>>I have had excellent results using stellar's data recovery solutions:
>>
>>http://www.stellarinfo.com/linux-data-recovery.htm
>>
>>It is non-free, but in my opinion well worth the price...
>
>
> Why would anyone create Windows-only software to recover data
> from a predominantly Linux-centric filesystem that is, for all practical
> purposes, never used under Windows?
>

Who knows?

>
> Why not ship a Linux version, even
> (preferably?) without any bells and whistles in the way of a GUI?
>

They certainly should...

But I figured the OP was predominantly a Windows
user and would be better able to deal with a piece of
commercial windows software. I've never had to use a Stellar product
to recover a Linux partition, but have found it works wonders on
FAT/NTFS partitions...

"Frans van Duinen" <duinen@eol.ca> wrote in message
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> I don't want to get your hopes up too much since my knowledge of Linux
> is sadly out of date, but let me ask:
> What flavour of Linux are you using? Does it have a trashcan feature?
> If it does AND depending on how you deleted, there may be stuff in the
> trashcan that can be restored.
>
> In either case, if your company has computer support staff, get them
> involved. They will probably know what can be done and/or if there is
> another source for some or all of those email messages.
> --
> --
> Frans van Duinen
> Toronto, Ontario

Hi,
I am using Slackware. Trashcan? I suppose it is under GUI? I didn't run the
GUI.
I delete it by typing rm -r.

Thank you for trying to help. I just restore older backup over.

--
CL

"+Alan Hicks+" <alan@lizella.netWORK> wrote in message
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> On 2007-03-21, CL <cl@screamx.com> wrote:
> > Dear Sir,
>
> Not everyone here is a "sir".
>
> > I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is
there
> > a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very
much
> > appreciated.
>
> Ouch....
>
> Quick word of advice: never run as root unless absolutely necessary.
> Use sudo to execute individual commands with root privilages and you
> may not have this problem again.
>
> Now, the first thing to do is unmount the partition that those files
> were stored on. If that partition is /, then shutdown the system.
>
> Second, I would encourage you to make a byte-for-byte backup of that
> partition using dd. Something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/some/file
>
> If you bork that partition with recovery tools, you can restore the
> partition to its exact 1s and 0s with:
>
> dd if=/some/file of=/dev/sda1
>
> As for what tool to use to recover lost data? Well, I've never had to
> do that on ext2/3 file systems, so I couldn't say. However, there are
> many excellent tools out there and a quick google should get things
> going for you once again.
>
> And oh, btw, make backups!
>
> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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It is pleasure to have your advice instead of flaming.
My so call 'accidentally deleted' is actually I deleted needed files that I
thought not needed anymore. (I thought I have moved mail directory to other
drive.)

I did make backup for data files but not mails..

Thanks anyway.