From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 5:46:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B12537B69C for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14I9xR-000IGu-00; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:46:01 +0000 To: kibbet , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: unnewfs ? Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:46:01 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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