Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:09:22 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering "Deleted" File Message-ID: <199912302209.XAA23143@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Josef Karthauser wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> 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.
>
> Can you do this on a "live" filesystem?
Good question. I haven't tried this myself. In any case, it
should only be a last resort if you really need that file back.
In theory, it should work on a live filesystem, but since fsdb
is working on the raw device, it circumvents the FS driver,
which might cause problems.
It's probably a good idea to umount the partition and perform
fsck afterwards.
Regards
Oliver
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