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Re: low-level XFS drive recovery

To: Adam Milazzo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: low-level XFS drive recovery
From: "Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 01:52:29 +0200
Cc: "'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <44D5677E9B8478468DE31AE26DF0AFD6077C87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> In a bout of impatient, early-morning foolishness, while trying to quickly
> "format" /dev/hda1 (mounted under /mnt), I did an 'rm -rf /*' from a
> chroot'd shell, but didn't realize until I pressed Enter, that I had
> /dev/hdb1 mounted. However, it was too late, as the second drive was nearly
> instantly wiped clean, taking with it all my important stuff! So I went to
> bed.

Maybe a good backup scheme to tape would help.


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