Re: bootclean.sh

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Bill Moseley wrote:

> My grep skills are failing me.
> 
> I lost power on a laptop when editing a message in mutt/vim.  I
> booted "linux single" but bootclean (AFAIK) still ran and wiped out
> my /tmp.
> 
> Is there a trick to booting to avoid cleaning /tmp so I might be able
> to recover from such an irritating event?

you already have the file name ... just remove the "rm"

vi keeps its temp files in the same dir as the file being edited
at the time of the crash
	vi :recover

c ya
alvin