Emergency

[Madison Kelly]

John McGregor wrote:
>>I did this using Knoppix so the drive has not been touched yet. Is 
>>there a way to recover the file system?
>>
> 
> 
> If you did it with Knoppix and you are sure that the drive hasn't been affected
> then a complete shutdown of the machine will kill Knoppix and anything that is 
> residing in its memory buffers.Knoppix does its permanent writes when the shutdown
> sequence is initiated (if you haven't saved the changes already). "Pulling the plug" 
> on the machine will prevent that and in this case it should leave the original file
> system intact. YMMV
> 
> John
> 
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I was root when I did this, and I did just kill the system (held the 
power button until it shut down). Does it not write the data out right 
away when the command is issued as root?

Madison

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