From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 17 13:10:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C963716A400 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:10:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7700443D46 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:10:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id k3HDAMg3012729; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id k3HDAMCX012728; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:10:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200604171310.k3HDAMCX012728@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: superdaemon@gmail.com (Super Daemon) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:10:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:10:22 -0000 > > 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" > >