Recovery of data due to incorrect use of 'mv'
Hi all,
I am fairly new to Linux, and even more so to Ubuntu. Recently whilst playing around with my Samba settings, and shared directories, I somehow managed to incorrectly use the 'mv' command resulting in the data within a directory completly dissapearing. Initially the problem was the read\write settings for the directory: /data/Lauren/ This directory wasn't accessible from the various windows machines on my LAN, so after chmoding, etc and using the mv command, to move /data/Lauren to /TheLauren, I somehow managed to come out the other side with no "/data/Lauren" and two new empty directories "/The" and "/Lauren" Bassicly my question is, will I be able to use data recovery software to track down the original data and its directory structure? or has my data gone elsewhere? I'm worried that if I attempt to do anything without advise I may run the risk of making matters worse. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, AppleNinja. |
Since you used mv, there's a chance that data is still there, just not exactly where you think.
Do you know the name of one file that was in /data/Lauren? If so, as root, do a "find / -name <filename>" to see where it has gone. |
Thanks for the quick reply.
None of the files I searched for appear to be on the system anymore. What are the odds that an ext data recovery tool would help?? |
Depends on the file system. What do you use? What distribution?
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