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Dear All,

I accidentally deleted a .bashrc file from /root (as administrator) with the rm command. Is there a way to recover the file? I supplemented this file with features that made it easier for me to work on my computer and desperately seek help

Thank you in advance
Oliver

It depends on what filesystem is used for the / partition. If it's ext4, then have a look at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi ... xtundelete or https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi ... #Ext4Magic
Although ext4magic is not available via the Mageia repositories, you would have to install it manually.

If your / partition is not ext4, then please mention what filesystem is used. To check what filesystem is used, post the output of

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mount | grep  '/ '

If you only want to recover the file without your additions, you can just copy it over from /etc/skel/.bashrc

thank you for fast reply.

It is ext4 and I have installed Ext4Magic. According to the instructions, I should mount the FS (/dev/sda2) as read-only. So I did:

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mount -o remount,ro,noload  /dev/sda3

but there is a message that 'the /home is busy' despite the fact that I killed all processes that I gave found with

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ps aux | grep home

Do you have some additional suggestions?

ovince wrote:According to the instructions, I should mount the FS (/dev/sda2) as read-only. So I did:

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mount -o remount,ro,noload  /dev/sda3

You wrote that you want to remount sda2 readonly, but ran the command against sda3 (which seems to be your /home partition).
But in the first post you mention you want to restore /root/.bashrc - this is not located in your /home partition.

Also, you cannot use ps to check for open files, you would need to use fuser or lsof for that.

sorry, I meant sd3

I used to have /home/.bashrc (sda3) and its symbolic link in /root/.bashrc. to be able to use some functions by both users (probably clumsy solution ...). But, today I deleted /root/.bashrc forgetting that it was a link, so I end up loosing all ....

If /root/.bashrc was a symlink to /home/.bashrc then you only need to recreate that symlink.