Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:46:01 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: kibbet <kibbet@knfpub.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unnewfs ? Message-ID: <E14I9xR-000IGu-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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> Hey All, > > As you can probably gather from the topic I did a bad thing, > yup newfs'd a rather important partition (mounted on /usr) :(( > > So.. is there a way to recover from this silliness ? Or should > I beg my other half for forgiveness (it was her machine) :) Well you can tell her, without needing to lie, that all of her data is nice and safe and sound on the machine. Then explain that as a security measure you have ensured it is inaccessible to prying eyes. The next bit you need to explain is the difficult bit ... > I'm assuming newfs just removes inode references etc and the > data is still there - Still there, just chewing the fat on the free list, waiting for a passing punter.. I'm also assuming its not a trivial exercise > to put it all back together... > > Anyways... info appreciated, pointing and laughing accepted :) > > Cheers > > Kent Ibbetson > kibbet@knfpub.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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