From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 17:58:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E862A16A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:58:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41204.mail.yahoo.com (web41204.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0AAC43D5A for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:58:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 20333 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Feb 2005 17:58:20 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=z6BD02PSetNu+O9cCE8Qa56EeMDLSfKppuKqonj0uQq32qH502eP+PlV5RD1jos6sgvucNLm5MdmphnwutO1YAYnKFwHf3LRy6GjDPrci95fEi1BHVaUBowM6DlUkPFa9BuufgRYNCyXfY8fF60DNG9YZIYd1Z80Lv1LGqkRZx8= ; Message-ID: <20050221175820.20331.qmail@web41204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [83.129.190.166] by web41204.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:58:20 PST Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:58:20 -0800 (PST) From: Arne "Wörner" To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: UFS2 Recovery Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:58:21 -0000 > I recently was rearranging my web server content and accidentally > removed a symbolic link recursively >root@host # rm -rf music > The music link pointed to a directory that existed on a > spserate drive mounted as /storage >music -> /storage/Music/Mp3s I just tried to remove a directory via a sym link that points to that directory: #mkdir a #ln -s a b #touch a/c #rm -rf b #ls a c It did not work like you decribed it. Maybe I did not understand you description correctly. That could explain your disapearing success, when u used autopsy and such tools... ? -Arne __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com