Questions tagged [deleted-files]
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Problems with apt in Raspbian where /var content has been removed or corrupt
Apparently on a production server there has been some problem and someone has deleted the contents of the /var folder.
This has caused several errors that I have been solving with various services ...
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Linux restore deleted images (png/gif/jpg/jpeg)
I inadvertently deleted images from my linux filesystem today with classic command rm -f.
All deleted images was in one single folder. It was no all whole images in this folder, it was only very ...
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Delete one type of file from specific directory however not from subdirectory
I am currently working on HP-UX and have a cron job which runs every morning which deletes file older than certain number of days based on retention policy. Recently I added a sub directory at the ...
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Recovery software for corrupted files when running a linux system?
I am looking for options regarding recovering deleted files (don't recall if corrupted applied).
Filesystem for the corrupted files are VFAT-formatted on a USB, though I run a Linux system (but can ...
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Use rsync to mirror source for website deployment, but not delete selected files in destination
I have been working on this for several days and no matter what I do I can't get it to work. I've read practically every Q&A on StackExchange network about rsync but still not found the answer.
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What does it mean to overwrite a file but keep it?
The wipe tool has the option -k Keep files, i.e. do not remove() them after overwriting.
What does that mean not to remove a file that was ... well... wiped?
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On Mac OSX, how can I open a deleted file which is still open by a process?
b2-osx108v8-01:~ bamboo$ lsof -p 264
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
<lines removed>
java 264 bamboo 20w REG 1,2 240906 ...
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What happens when the current directory is deleted?
In the first terminal A, I create a directory, enter the directory, and create a file:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ touch file1.txt
$ ls
file1.txt
Then in another terminal B, I delete the directory:
$ ...
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Is there a way to completely delete a previously deleted file without formatting the whole drive?
I am working on a server with others and I want to completely delete files which were previously deleted using 'rm'. I cannot format the server disk as others share it with me. Is it effective to ...
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rm -rf destroyed directories of the files set to be deleted (multiple arguments)
In a testing environment I executed:
rm -rf /var/www/html/${domain} /etc/nginx/sites-available/${domain} /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/${domain}
The result was that html, sites-available and sites-...
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How to undelete a file on a btrfs filesystem
Which software and commands are required, to undelete a file on a btrfs filesystem?
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Removing speed using `srm` and the Gutmann method is too low
I need to delete some files using Gutmann method. Deleting files using
srm -rvz took for me more than 16 hours and after that I canceled it.
After that I do a test: I tried to delete a 5GB file ...
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Accidentally trashed large file
I accidentally moved an entire directory of ~100GB to trash. I was trying to place it in bookmarks but dragged it into trash. It's there in the trash. But
when i try to restore I run out of space ...
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Recovering files deleted by rsync
I entered the command
rsync -rltpHS --delete-excluded rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ /your/dir/
with /your/dir/ as my home directory, which resulted in all of my files being deleted and replaced with the ...
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How to Check the location of a deleted file in CentOS Linux distribution? [duplicate]
I have deleted a file and now I want it on the same place from where I have deleted? How I can check that deleted file in my system from CLI?
I tried find command but end up nothing.
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Deleted files still in use: memfd:pulseaudio(pulsaudi), memfd:xshmfence(Xorg), /tmp/ib…(mysqld)
So I'm running a freshly installed Debian 9.1 with KDE and some tool showed me that these files have been deleted but are still in use:
memfd:pulseaudio(pulsaudi)
memfd:xshmfence(Xorg)
/tmp/ibAbCdEf(...
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Delete files in Linux unrecoverable
What's the ideal command or software to erase files in Linux so they are unrecoverable?
A kernel command or any other command or software that would delete the files and make them unrecoverable
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What constitutes a Scrub “Pass”?
The Scrub utility on Linux can accept different methods of scrubbing. These allow for different types and orders of 'passes'. For example, the 4-pass DoD 5220.22-M section 8-306 procedure is a 4-pass ...
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Get list of files deleted by rm -rf
I hadn't sleep much. A bad script was creating a folder under somewhere/~ and I tried to removed it with rm -rf ~.
I Ctrl C quickly and I don't think I've lost much files. I get they are lost for ...
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macOS rm command '-W' option - undelete
I was looking at the man page for the rm command on my MacBook and I noticed the the following:
-W Attempt to undelete the named files. Currently, this option can only be used to recover
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How to see the contents of a file I deleted, but that a process is still writing to
I started a very long running job (expected to take 6 days to finish), and want to see its output, so I did:
$ nohup ./thejob.sh > out.txt
When I need to see the job progress I tail - f the file.
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Securely overwriting part of disk
A while ago I sought out the answer to the opposite question to
the one I am posing here and found this answer:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/98700
The grep() piped to tee() in the comments was ...
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What to do with extundelete recovered files
So, i accidentally delete my files. I attempt to recover files using extundelete with --restore-all options. Inside the RECOVERED_FILES directory i got files.xxxxx which i think is inode file.
My ...
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Cannot remove directory, operation not supported on NTFS
I have an old Windows directory that I have not been able to remove using Windows processes so I moved to Slax Linux to try and remove it.
When removing the directory I receive
Cannot remove [...
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Deleting a specific file from inside a tar file [duplicate]
I have to delete the files which are zipped and then stored in .tar format. I Have to untar the files then delete the files which name includes XXX, YYY or ZZZ. There are more than thousand of .tar ...
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Can anyone delete the '/bin' folder in linux?
Can we delete the /bin folder in /usr directory in linux.
If yes, then what are its consequences?
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How to recover the deleted binary executable file of a running process
I have a process running very long time.
I accidentally deleted the binary executable file of the process.
Since the process is still running and doesn't get affected, there must be the original ...
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Writing and reading from file descriptor 3 and /proc
When I run the following command:
exec 3<<< "TEST"
I can see the following appear in /proc (note last line regarding FD3 reading deleted):
# ls -al /proc/$$/fd
total 0
dr-x------ 2 root ...
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Recovering a file that is overwritten with cat >
If you have a file called myfile and you do cat > myfile instead of cat myfile (to see it's contents) I understand that it is overwritten. Is there any possible way to recover its contents? I tried ...
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Why does the pwd doesn't update after directory removal?
I tried a little experiment where I created 2 folders Dir1 and Dir2 inside my Desktop directory, such that Dir1 is parent of Dir2.
/home/username/Desktop/Dir1/Dir2
Then, I use cd to set my pwd as /...
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How to find the files have been removed in Shell? [duplicate]
If I deleted a file, how am I able to display that file just removed?
For example: I deleted a file named A, if I run my shell, that will display file A have been removed.
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Recovering deleted files (Mac OSx)
I have gone through couple of previously answered questions but couldn't find any thing which will work for me.
I used this command accidently on a wrong folder, which deleted some important files ...
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All my files have been erased after I tried to make my audio better
I am using Kali Linux 2.0 Debian 64 bit and I was having some problems with Sound output, I went to a certain website which advised me to execute the following
sudo killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-...
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Deleted “apt-get” on Kali Linux need re-installing [duplicate]
I am on an Acer Aspire V15 Nitro, and I have two hard drives; One has Windows, but is not big enough for anything other than it (128GB SSD) and on a separate 2TB HDD I have grub installed, so I can ...
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Running tar cmd in wrong format, how to recover [duplicate]
Trying to tar a file called report, but accidentally running wrong format
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 708 Aug 20 10:12 report
$ tar czvf report report.tar.gz
then
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 ...
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Accidentally deleted /usr/include. What can I do to reinstall the files that were in that directory?
I was trying to get SFML working on fedora 24, and I accidentally deleted the usr/include directory in the process. Is there any way to reinstall all the missing files? Or do I have to reinstall the ...
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What happens when we delete resolv.conf file from a Linux server?
I have deleted the resolv.conf file from a Linux server and now I am not able to login to that server. What is the logic behind this and how can this be resolved?
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Free space not reclaimed after truncating the fd
I have an old log that stays in (deleted) state, and after applying
> /proc/'pid'/fd/4 the space is not reclaimed.
In fact, the size of file is zeroed, but the space is still used ?
Have I ...
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Ignore 'cannot remove `dir`: Is a directory message
I'm setting up an automation process where I am deleting files in a directory which contains sub-directories. I only want to delete the files in the directory, and want to keep the sub-directories ...
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Restore part of a package that was accidentally deleted
In the process of trying to fix an issue, I accidentally deleted /sbin/sysctl when I was intending to delete /etc/sysctl.conf.
When I run sysctl I get the error that says
The program 'sysctl' is ...
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View list of deleted files
I have executed rm -f *.gz about 30 days ago. Is there any way to find out the list of files that were deleted?
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How to Make MoveToTrash mean Delete Permanently by One-liner?
I did Move to Trash > Empty Trash. However, .fileNames and .directoryNames stay in the filesystem
those .files/.directories which have exactly the same name as my deleted files/directories
For ...
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How to Prevent Dropbox Access Elsewhere when Symlink?
I have the symbolic link
ln -s $HOME/BTsync/masi/ $HOME/Dropbox/
I notice that contents in Dropbox GUI on Internet Browser are in conflict where masi directory has old files. I delete the directory ...
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Restore deleted text file content [duplicate]
I just wrote an important text and stored it as a simple text file. Then i accidentally cut out the content (with Ctrl+X) when i just wanted to copy it, and saved the file. Now it is of course empty. ...
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unlink original file instead of symbolic link. What to do?
I had a file with symbolic link
link -> original_file
original_file
I mistakenly ran unlink command with original_file
Now the original file is missing and the symbolic link is broken. What to do?...
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How does ext[n] delete files?
I know that a lot of deleted files can theoretically be recovered, which suggests that "deleting" doesn't actually remove the information.
So how do the various extN (e.g. ext4) filesystems delete ...
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What's the fastest way to remove all files & subfolders in a directory? [duplicate]
One program created lots of nested sub-folders. I tried to use command
rm -fr * to remove them all. But it's very slow. I'm wondering is there any faster way to delete them all?
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cd out of deleted folder
Is there a way to cd out of a directory which has just been deleted (go up one level into the upper folder which still exists?
It often happens to me that I have a console opened for a folder, and ...
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Using --delete option with rsync
We are using the following rsync command in a script to copy files from source to destination.
rsync -av --exclude 'share/web/sessions/' --rsync-path "sudo rsync" /sdata/ 172.31.X.X:/sdata/ &>...
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recover files if still being used by a process
I have run into a problem where I accidentally erased the contents of a conf file. I am trying to use the cp and tail recovery process that I saw online but it does not appear to be working. The file ...
