Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:41:17 -0800 From: "Thomas Foster" <tbonius@comcast.net> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2 Recovery Questions Message-ID: <001801c51f5f$cdde9dc0$4300a8c0@home.lan> References: <00f201c515fa$8caef250$4300a8c0@home.lan> <20050227163636.GA1672@alzatex.com>
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Yes, I did use the -r option (bad muscle memmory habits), and it removed the symlink and the directories it pointed at. At this point I am still attempting to rescue the data from an image via sleuthkit T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: "Thomas Foster" <tbonius@comcast.net> Cc: <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: Re: UFS2 Recovery Questions > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:43:45PM -0800, Thomas Foster wrote: >> Please excuse me if this is not the correct forum in which to ask this >> question and please try to bear with me. I was hoping to understand a few >> things about attempting to retrieve information from a drive on my >> FreeBSD 5.3 system. >> >> I recently was rearranging my web server content and accidentally removed >> a symbolic link recursively >> >> root@host # rm -rf music > > Are you sure the command wasn't rm -fr music/? The final / can make a > big differnece with symlinks. It forces the system to look it up as a > directory first, and without that, I think it would only remove the > symlink. Also, -r should never be needed for a symlink, even if it > point to a directory. > >> >> The music link pointed to a directory that existed on a spserate drive >> mounted as /storage >> >> music -> /storage/Music/Mp3s >> > <snip> >> >> Now the questions is.. are the files even recoverable? Is this a lost >> cause? Any additional information required, any comments or suggestions, >> anything would be helpful. I thank you for your time in the matter. >> >> Thomas Foster >> http://www.section6.net >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > -- > I sense much NT in you. > NT leads to Bluescreen. > Bluescreen leads to downtime. > Downtime leads to suffering. > NT is the path to the darkside. > Powerful Unix is. > > Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc > Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C > >
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