Jeff Abrahamson on 25 Oct 2005 21:03:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Recovery 2.5GB of deleted files


On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:40:36PM -0400, Eugene Smiley wrote:
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> sean finney wrote:
> > hmm... i'm guessing that you don't have another 400GB of free space
> > to dd a binary image of your partition?  that's usually the very
> > first thing i do in a situation like this.  and yes, there have
> > been quite a few of those as i rm -rf a lot and sometimes my
> > fingers don't type in teh order they're supposed to :)
> 
> True. I don't have 400GB to spare. Although I might be able to pull
> off software RAID0 with a pair of 200-300 GB drives. The biggest
> challenge will be not buring out the 200W power supply.

It may not help much now, but remember that 200 GB drives cost $100
these days.

-- 
 Jeff

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