From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 22 21: 5:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2380837B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4651743F65 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:05:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41]) by ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0N55b3J024954 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:05:37 +1100 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: JacobRhoden Organization: University of Melbourne To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recover overwritten file Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:05:36 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <1043295876.6598.207.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> In-Reply-To: <1043295876.6598.207.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301231600.52211.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday 23 January 2003 15:24, Duncan Anker wrote: > > i just overwrote a critical file, can anyone andvise me on how to rec= over > > it? > I don't believe there is any way to recover an overwritten file. Is there a particular reason why there are no facilities to 'un' unlink a= file=20 in freebsd? (apart from the obvious reaon of - people shouldnt delete fi= les=20 that they want to keep)...=20 is there some philisopical reason that it shouldnt be at least an option?= or=20 is it just due to no one bothering? perhaps it could be disabled by defau= lt,=20 but enabled on a per file system basis via fstab? (ie the /home partion). Yes I know people should make backups, but there are always going to be i= diot=20 out there and it may save some admin's some time? thoughts? Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message