I used this command: replace OLD-STRING NEW-STRING <INPUT-FILE >OUTPUT-FILE and like a dummy used INPUT-FILE as OUTPUT-FILE btw, the OS is RHEL. so you know. > I accidental overwrote a file with empty data using redirect. It's an > ext3 fs managed by LVM and setup in raid5. Is there any way to recover > my goof? -- Jon Molesa rjmolesa at consoltec.net if you're bored or curious http://rjmolesa.com