It would seem Ralph Boland, on Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:27:00PM -0400, wrote: > I just erased a days work (by my favourite means tar cvf list of files to > tar) > Can the file that has been overwritten be recovered? It depends on the filesystem, but for most of the common Linux filesystems, the answer is not easily. If you google the question, you can find some people with mixed success at restoring files. -Ross