From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 17:00:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D56106564A for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 17:00:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eam1edward@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED038FC08 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 17:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcni5 with SMTP id ni5so7212011obc.13 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 10:00:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; bh=LtmYMvvR9bvj2AAPUF+ufmMeUZjtaqjhr1qeCcpFyf8=; b=1GMsweZqBlEHAdRDVTf9r6Z1MjefY7jOoqxE5CZXv2FfC+B/kpl4xmAumz7y2DPOjR zB9+xQKJifmZrzocGlUvRWXkbTdeUo6uqKBFXLA6KB26YhylADbMZYMqB/jSRoHLLg4v 1BBSOJTV7jxO4NRTzDs/92fiouLuXjKUBUMAw7p/ijuk8xvlYgA9OI/iWZjDsZ5WLxik dy1CtayQsXFvukvOGBUTKNjQqzQdlB5Mgh0o1TwFCbESnlsUCbM/JmaJtcFJqc9nK6CH RsFejmsYe0D5MzXsrzHI4ZenhDn6GLlOnrlIYLJfNVAdV3ETeuymjZy8DVCKXdR2BIxO NpgQ== Received: by 10.182.119.6 with SMTP id kq6mr6637709obb.67.1335891651987; Tue, 01 May 2012 10:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([174.134.109.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id lq4sm13550389obb.12.2012.05.01.10.00.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 May 2012 10:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FA01806.1020800@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 10:06:14 -0700 From: Edward M User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120424 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <201205010558.q415wAFu091478@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4F9F92CF.303@gmail.com> <20120501154343.4c2010ca.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120501154343.4c2010ca.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing 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: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:00:52 -0000 On 05/01/2012 06:43 AM, Polytropon wrote: > Except buying (good) books, you can also search for > articles on the web. For example, "A Fast File System > for UNIX" by M. K. McKusick is very interesting (at > least it was for me when I lost all my important data). > > Some fs-related articles here: > http://www.mckusick.com/articles.html > > They help you to understand how things work or what > maybe makes them stop working.:-) > > Also the documentation of tools like TSK (ports/sleuthkit), > ex TCT, is very helpful in understanding all the low-level > details that_really_ matter when you_need_ to get your > hands dirty in order to perform a forensic analysis or to > recover important data. Sadly, that documentation has moved > from local storage in/usr/local/share/doc/sleuthkit/ (where > I've seen it the last time) to some on-line place or Wiki, > something_I_ consider "a bad idea" especially in worst case > considerations (i. e. no internet connection); the only > content in README.txt, > > The docs that used to live in this directory now exist on the wiki: > http://wiki.sleuthkit.org/ > > doesn't make it any better, sorry. Thanks for the help...I will definitely check McKusick site and the docs I'm self learning UNIX/programming. so I need all the info and help I can get.:-)