From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 28 09:10:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA04612 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:10:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.5.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA04594 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:10:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA18869; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:10:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018861; Tue Oct 28 10:10:18 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25828; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:10:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710281710.KAA25828@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Recovering Lost Inode? To: faber@ISI.EDU (Ted Faber) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:10:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710280426.UAA24133@tnt.isi.edu> from "Ted Faber" at Oct 27, 97 08:26:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >(maybe i've used win95 once too many...) > > I won't bore you with the short scripts that provide this behavior on > UNIX. If that's the file deletion paradigm that you like, it's easy > to do... > > "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn I'll note that these methods are generally restricted to interactive shells, and are not effective for deletes under programmatic control. So these methods are probably *not* what he wants, and certainly not what his system administrator wants. In response to the Windows 95 reference: the Windows 95 Recycle bin is not activated by a command line delete (unless you happen to have a VXD that traps deletes everywhere *but* the Recycle bin, and you probably don't because Artisoft never released the code). So it's doubly unlikely that he was talking about command-line based deletes, since Windows 95 doesn't do that. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.