Re: [Redhat] vmlinuz

[Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk>]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> B, Prasada Rao (Cognizant) wrote:
>
> > Hi friends,
> > I have few queries regarding Linux. Can some one give me the response..
> > 1. Why bootimage is called as vmlinuz ? Is there any specific reason?
>
>
> "vmlinuz" is the bzip2-compressed version of the kernel.  "vmlinux" is
> the uncompressed version.  If you were to try to create a boot floppy,
> it is very unlikely you'd get "vmlinux" on it (too big), but "vmlinuz"
> (the compressed version) will fit. 

I've found even vmlinuz is getting too big. On this computer (AMD K6-2, 
IDE disc drives but a SCSI card with CD reader and CD writer) a 
mkbootdisk under RH9 is OK but under Fedora Core 1 it is too big. The 
image in /tmp is bigger than a floppy.

> > 3. How can we retrieve deleted data? (Heard that by using midnight 
> > Commander (mc), we can retrieve the data). But I dont know the 
> > procedure of undeleting data
>
>
> I don't know of a reliable undelete utility.

If you delete files though the GUI interface then they are put into the 
Wastebasket ( a ".Trash-username" file) from where they may be 
retrieved. From the command line I don't know of a way.

Regards

Chris