Hi,

I am currently using Knoppix 5.0.1, HD install.

I want to report something that has both amazed and defeated me.

I was trying to remove some folders named FOUND001, FOUND002, and so on, up to FOUND032 or something. Those folders were in my vfat partition /dev/hda1, mounted on /media/hda1.

So I ran this command, in hda1 folder

Code:
rm -rf FOUND*
And I am sure I typed exactly that command, because I am aware of the dangers of the -rf flags.

After some loading I found out that the whole content of /media/hda1 was deleted!

I had some very important files (university docs), and this machine is also shared with another person (that now is extremely angry at me).

I don't know if there is actually anything I can do to retrieve even part of those precious files.

I was not thinking straight just after I realised what happened, so I rebooted with the Windows XP CD, to see if I could do anything, but I have no recovery disk. So while it was still loading for a new installation of Windows, I rebooted, and I hope I didn't alter anything in hda1.

Could somebody please give me some suggestions?