Re: recover ext3 deletion

[Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com>]

Gerald Livingston, 2002-Nov-08 22:54 -0600:
> 
> I went googling and found a utility I had set up when I was first
> playing with slackware years ago. It's called safedelete and creates a
> "trashcan" like wrapper around 'rm'. I don't see it packaged anywhere
> and the .rpm's I found while goggling seem to have been created sometime
> in the year 2000 -- the link I provide below indicates a tgz version
> from 2001.

I simply have an alias for rm for my shell:

alias rm='mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/home/jeff/.Trash'
 
This is in my ~/.bashrc

I have this for my root account too...after deleting my entire /etc
directory once, I learned my lesson.

jc

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