By mistake i did rm -rf /dir (on a directory in linux). (its really painfull i have been working from last one week and all my work is gone. Can somebody please help ?? All my scripts,directories and files are gone are gone no files/ no directory ..nothing is left.. with me

Can somebody help in recovering my files and directories . I'am using redhat enterprise linux version 4 and my filesystem is ext3
If required i can talk it over the phone to recover files.

There is no "undelete" when using the command line. You will need to use one of several filesytem recovery tools.

While we are waiting for someone who knows these things, don't write anything to that disk. Ideally, don't use it at all. In principle, the files are recoverable unless something gets written on top of them.

I'm not sure, but the knoppix std live cd might have what you need.

The rm command is one of the most devastating commands in the hands of the unwary. I've trashed my entire system a couple times with it. There is no recovery. Theoretically, if the portion of the drive disk where this information previously was has not been written over, then it should still be there... and be recoverable. However, that is a job for a hard disk dissection expert. You'll have to pay someone to do that for you at a shop somewhere. It's usually not worth it. That service starts at $300US or so.

I'm sorry this happened to you.

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