Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:10:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: superdaemon@gmail.com (Super Daemon) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp question Message-ID: <200604171310.k3HDAMCX012728@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <d65588f00604170432g24bb5c34m7148a7ce646967af@mail.gmail.com>
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> > I think I may have a lost a file. I placed it in /tmp and rebooted > the server. Now it is no longer there. Is the file recoverable at > all??? The chances are very slim. Only if the space has not been written over, which, in /tmp, is probably that it has, and then only a small chance of recovery. I think there are some tools that attempt to do that sort of thing, probably in ports. I haven't heard of much success with them and have never used one. They might work on a file system that has been quiescent since the file was deleted. They work by trying to fix up pointers that have been de-linked but since /tmp is used as scratch space and its space gets reused a lot, those pointers have probably been overwritten by now. There are companies that specialize in recovering data, but they are expensive. ////jerry > > I'm not on the list so please cc me. > > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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