From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 13:13:10 2004 Return-Path: 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 B92C116A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:13:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5590043D5F for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:13:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC9969A87; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:13:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:13:06 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Joachim Dagerot Message-Id: <20040920091306.447cc291.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200409201300.i8KD08p26254@thunder.trej.net> References: <20040920070926.GA81270@xor.obsecurity.org> <200409201300.i8KD08p26254@thunder.trej.net> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Undelete featured filesystem forfreebsd? WAS: Undelete on untouched partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:13:10 -0000 Joachim Dagerot wrote: > ------------------- > | On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:23:08AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > | > I have a disk with one single slice and one partition: ad1s1d. I > used > | > move to move ALL data on this disk to another location and after > that > | > has the disk been unused. Is there a way to get the content back > using > | > a copy of a FAT or similar? > | > | Recovering erased data from a UFS requires guru skills. > > What a pitty, well nothing to do then I guess. Thanks for your answer. Not true. There are utilities available, and I've seen more than one HOWTO on this subject. Use google. > Is anyone aware of an approach to get some kind of soft deletion > functionality on freeBSD. I mean, it's not extremely unique to be able > to get files back after a deletion, even windows has features for this > since long time. CVS, or other version control system. Backup. Intelligent file management. It's rather interesting to note that the Windows world focuses on recovering from mistakes _after_ they happen, whereas the Unix world focuses on working in such a way that mistake recovery will be trivial. Windows -> Oops, I screwed up, let me publish the crazy things I had to do to recover from my mistake. Unix -> I'm going to do this important stuff. Before I start, I'm going to assume that the fact that I'm human means there's a good chance that I'll make mistakes and corrupt or lose things, so I'll take steps from the get-go to make it easy to backtrack when that happens. Just my $.02 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com