How to recover deleted files

Marcelo Magno T. Sales mmtsales at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 18:49:21 UTC 2010


Em Segunda-feira 19 Abril 2010, Vijay Shanker Dubey escreveu:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> 
wrote:
> > Hi Vijay,
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Vijay Shanker Dubey
> > 
> > <vijay.shad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Did not find any thing back.
> > 
> > Well, these things happen and frustrating, especially when it is a
> > user error.
> > 
> > > Very frustrating. Not a good way to delete any thing. At least
> > > confirm
> > 
> > once.
> > 
> > > What ever the thing you are deleting.
> > > Have been enjoying UBUNTU for last 8 months. Now i have to think
> > > over
> > 
> > again.
> > 
> > > These usability is what windows provides and rocks with more than
> > > 95% of
> > 
> > OS
> > 
> > > market.
> > 
> > Windows will merrily delete stuff from your disk if you do a stupid
> > thing. Don't blame the tool for a user error.
> > 
> > Nevertheless, I really wonder who told you deleting something means
> > unmounting. You don't delete a drive on Windows when you want to
> > remove it.
> 
> Sorry to say. But i am not agree with you. Mounting means pointing
> some hard disk space in the file system to my /media directory. If I
> am deleting a pointer why should my data at the pointer will be
> deleted. All I want to know is this much.
> 
> There is another thing like symliks(shortcuts in windows). I thought
> of mounting as this only. It is ridiculous if Deleting a shortcut
> will cause the data to be deleted. :(
> 
> By the way No body told me that. It was my intuition and I did not
> verify. My Fault of course.  Learned the lesion very hard way.
> 
> What is the point to

To mount and to link are different things. If you remove a link, no data 
is lost, no matter if in Windows or in Linux. On the other hand, if you 
remove data from a mounted partition, that data is lost, again no matter 
if in Windows or in Linux. Windows defaults to mount its partitions 
using drive letters while Linux uses directories. Of course, if in 
Windows you remove all files in your C: drive, the data in the partition 
mounted in C: will be lost. Besides, Windows (starting with Windows 
2000) is able to mount partitions in directories too. Delete the files 
in a directory where a partition is mounted and the data in that 
partition will be lost as well.

[]'s
Marcelo




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