Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:58:39 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0702021258390.12303@hymn07.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45C37E3F.3080304@mac.com>
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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 Rox filer should be in ports; it's a file manager that some use to take care of their files. Chuck's right though--you should back up your data regularly if it's mission critical. -Garrett
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