From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 14 15:45:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8F537B503 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13ka3K-0006DO-00; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:45:18 +0200 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:45:18 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: daniel.fisher@vt.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file recovery Message-ID: <20001015004518.V61095@draenor.org> References: <00101310484800.52488@psych.ward.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00101310484800.52488@psych.ward.vt.edu>; from dfisher@vt.edu on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:48:48AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're lucky you may find the file in /lost+found -- sometimes corrupted files are stored there after a 'fsck', though you're not really assured that the file will be there. If it's not, then I am afraid you're out of luck. Cheers, Marc On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:48:48AM -0400, Daniel Fisher wrote: > hello, > yesterday i was working on a file in nedit (under kde) > and the power went out in my building. > i had saved this file before, but when my system came back up the file > existed, but had a size of 0 bytes. > i started searching around in tmp, but i can't seem to find where the system > might have dumped my file. > i'm guessing it's gone for good, but i was wondering if anyone knows > something i don't know about where my file might be. > also is there something i can do to ensure this doesn't happen again? > Thanks, > > -- > Daniel Fisher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message