From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 13:20:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BD114EA2 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA39537; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:20:09 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:20:09 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: Recovering "Deleted" File Message-ID: <19991230212009.E35536@florence.pavilion.net> References: <199912302048.VAA18244@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199912302048.VAA18244@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:48:41PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Having that said, recovering a reference to an existing inode > is easy if you know the inode number. Just change to any > directory on the filesystem which contains the inode, then > type (at the fsdb prompt): ``ln 42 foobar'', where 42 is the > inode number, and foobar is the name of the entry that shall be > created in the current directory as a reference for that inode. > then exit fsdb. That's it. > Oliver, Can you do this on a "live" filesystem? Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message