From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 23 11:58:10 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 D765E37B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-48.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3653D43F18 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA9F66B3A; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C66D7165C; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: JacobRhoden Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recover overwritten file Message-ID: <20030123195807.GI60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <1043295876.6598.207.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> <200301231600.52211.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301231600.52211.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:05:36PM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: > 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? >=20 > > I don't believe there is any way to recover an overwritten file. >=20 > 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 The filesystem isn't designed to allow it. Kris --PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MElPWry0BWjoQKURAjZIAKDnP2LE0SJJdA5rUPS1Z+I5qgdaNwCfYdUz 0soLzvrFUPV8UgUuQgCKzRA= =yUAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message