2015-03-01 Only every few years I do something stupid as: rm foo * This reminds me to this great story: [0] Well, in my case, there was no hardware failure involved ... except maybe one in my right thumb ... Unfortunately, the data wasn't backed up. Fortunately, however, the data I deleted can be recollected, although with some effort. More for fun than out of necessity, I wanted to try to restore them nonetheless. If you depend on that, the first thing you de- finitely should do is to cut the power right away. This prevents data to be overwritten. I didn't do it at once, but did some web searches and manpage reading and apt-cache searches before I shut the machine down. This reduced the restore possibilities heavily. Out of the 16 files (about 1500 MB) only two could be restored. Thus: If you want to restore, then cut the power right away! Dont even try to shut the machine down! I put the disk (actually an SD card) into another computer and ran extundelete(1) [1] on it: cd /large/enough/restore/place extundelete /dev/sdb1 --restore-directory /home/meillo/foo [0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2014- August/003409.html [1] http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/ http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke