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[LUG] Deleted qemu image
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- From: fraser kendall <lfs.mailing@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:37:03 +0100
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I have just done the stupidest thing. I was freeing up (rm -rf) space
on what I thought was a storage directory (/srv), but I have now just
discovered that it contained a critical qemu image. The image is a W7
VM and is still running; it appears unaffected. The /srv partition
is the largest on this machine and the testdisk recovery image of this
partition (~170G) is too large to fit anywhere on the hard drive.
This machine is mission critical. I cannot take it offline for another
6 hours, and I'll need to have it back up asap, (within an hour) so I
need to plan my attack.
So some very naive questions.
Best option: 1) can I retrieve the deleted qcow image from a running
instance of that image?
Fall back option: 2) does anyone know if a new installation of the
(Dell) W7 iso will still activate now that W7 is EOL?
I know that option 2 (writing to disk) will reduce the possibility of a
testdisk recovery. So, here's Q3: can i squeeze the second W7 VM into a
6G qcow image (remaining free space in /home)?
I'm not going to do anything for a while, except think. And hide from
the boss. All help would be appreciated.
fraser
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