XFS data recovery

[Amit Joshi]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, a friend of mine did an accidental rm on ALL of /var on a system.
> We're wondering what our options are for getting that data back.  He
> ctrl-Cd the deletion partway through when he realized what happened,
> and shut off the system.  /var was its own partition, formatted as XFS
> on top of LVM2 spanning two drives.  Each drive is 250GB, for 500GB
> total system capacity.  /var was half of that, 250GB (but using both
> drives via LVM).  Only about 500MB was used space.  Ideas?


Have you installed xfsprogs?
There might be a very small chance of recovering your data (Even though you
have deleted it, using rm). I think that on Linux file-systems, data is only
overwritten (that sector of the hard disk is not zeroed until you expressly
do it). Please look for a recovery process (search google) using xfsprogs.
Might work. (You would care about this only if you don't have a backup --
cuz if you have one, you have an easier and a faster option).
-- 
Regards,
Amit Joshi
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