Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:14:38 -0800 (PST) From: Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: user <user@dhp.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remind me ... (file undelete on FreeBSD 5.4) Message-ID: <20051126091438.4422.qmail@web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511260228160.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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--- user <user@dhp.com> wrote: > ln -s /some/dir/somewhere local > > (used the symlink named local for a while) > > rm -rf local > > local still exists in my current working directory, but > now /some/dir/somewhere is gone. > > --- > > So I rm -rf'd a symlink. I just wanted to delete the > link, and of course, it deleted the target. > > I then immediately mounted the filesystem read-only. > (it's all I could think of to do to preserve things > right at that state...) > > I did not have a snapshot enabled on the filesystem. > > I know the bits are still there ... is there any way > to get them back ? > Hmm... I think there was such a problem before on a freebsd list... Did u tell your box to do "rm -rf local" or to do "rm -rf local/"? I did an experiment: % mkdir a % ln -s a b % rm -rf b % ls -l [...] drwxrwxr-x 2 aw aw 512 Nov 26 09:04 a [...] % ln -s a b % rm -rf b/ % ls -l [...] lrwxrwxr-x 1 aw aw 1 Nov 26 09:04 b -> a [...] In ports/sysutils/autopsy u might find a useful little helper... There was another tool, but I did not find it... -Arne __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
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