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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition
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Tore Lund wrote:
> The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday.  I lost a
> file and was not able to recover it.  ROX-filer said NewFile where I
> should have seen a familiar filename.
[ ... ]
> My question is whether I could have done anything else to make FreeBSD
> correct the goof it had made.

Sure.  People normally make backups of the data they care about in order to 
avoid losing that data if a problem happens.

(I don't know what ROX-filer is, but it's not part of FreeBSD.)

-- 
-Chuck