Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-07 06:12 -0500: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> writes: > > If it's major, why so much resistance in following the advice that has been > > given? > > Beacuse: > > I'm in hda6, the partition containing the deletes files. When I reboot into a > live CD or into another partition of the hard disk, say hda8, as far as I know > - but maybe I'm wrong - during the reboot the system will write reports in some > files of hda6, which we don't want to. Instead, if I do: `# cd /mnt/hda8', and > run photorec from hda8, we avoid the possible damage caused by the reboot or > the shutdown, and also we don't touch hda6. Is that true? These 4 options have been mentioned: 1. remount hda6 readonly 2. umount hda6 3. reboot to LiveCD 4. immediate power-off (pull the plug) If 1 and 2 are not possible (on 2 you could try forcing it, see umount(8)), and 4 could possibly cause filesystem damage, then 3 is your only remaining option. The writes that have occured to hda6 while the system runs are probably more than what will occur when you shutdown the system.
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