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Re: [PLUG] HD hosed by stupidity and xcdroast
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Speaking of evolution...
Have you tried the new version yet? I believe it's 0.8
I tried 6 but I didn't feel it was quite ready for prime time yet
I run Mandrake 7.2 and love it. Though at the moment I can't get the new evolution to run.
>>> turgon@mike-leone.com 01/05 10:11 AM >>>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Jonas" <bill@billjonas.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] HD hosed by stupidity and xcdroast
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:55:54AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > Yep; answered "yep". Fingers moving before brain. And xcdroast wiped the
> > whole /dev/hdb2 partition. Including /, /usr, etc.
>
> >From <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html>:
>
> One also could think of creating an extra partition and writing the
> image to that partition instead to a file. I vote against such a
> strategy because if you write to the wrong partition due to a typo,
> you can lose your complete Linux system. Read: that happened to me...
>
> Well, you're in good company, at least. Don't feel too badly; back in the
> spring I accidentally deleted my entire home directory. (Mental note to
> self: you either want to delete all files while you're in a directory, or
> change to the parent and delete the directory you were just in, *not* some
> combination of the two approaches...)
Done that one, too. :-)
> Anyway, I don't think it'll be much help to you since some critical areas
> of the disk were overwritten, but you can take a look at
> <http://www.billjonas.com/papers/undeletion.html>.
Yeah, at this point, it may not really be worth it. I have NO partitions
defined, much less formatted, on that disk (besides the small /boot
partition I always make - something else I found out about the hard way, and
still always do). Dunno if recovery will work, in that case. If it was just
deleting files, but leaving the filesystem intact, maybe.
Appreciate the pointer, tho.
> But it's like I said to my fiancee when the same damn thing happened to
> me: "I don't care so much about the damn binaries, I just want the text
> files back."
Exactly.
> BTW, I've heard people say some very good things about Mandrake and have
> tried it myself. You might want to give it a spin....
I have a Mandrake 7.1 CD somewhere. I wasn't going to use it, since I also
want to use the latest version of Evolution (the GUI mail client), and the
RPMs aren't made for that distro yet (the RedHat versions have been out for
over a month). But perhaps I will. I know Mike Ryan thinks quite highly of
Mandrake. And it is RedHat derived, so it should be familar enough.
Thanks.
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