From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 06:06:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11AA16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE08143D55 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.5] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i3KD61gn003434; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:06:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040420125025.GA30066@energistic.com> References: <4084F85B.5070909@delit.net> <20040420102632.GA36668@e-Gitt.NET> <20040420121423.GA1154@frontfree.net> <20040420125025.GA30066@energistic.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:05:52 +0200 To: Steve Ames From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Andrey Smirnov cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A way to recover deleted files (just contents) from USF2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:06:19 -0000 At 7:50 AM -0500 2004/04/20, Steve Ames wrote: > That's kinda silly. Unless files are backed up at every edit then most of > us only have periodic filesystem backups. Lets say I just download a 150M > file and then accidentally delete it. Rather than wasting time and bandwidth > downloading again it'd be simpler to just 'unrm' it. Odds are that diskspace > and even inode haven't been recycled yet. Well, if you can't get ffsrecov to work, there's always Wietse Venema's "The Coroner's Toolkit", which includes "unrm" and "lazarus" tools. See . Of course, these kinds of things are never guaranteed to work, and if you have to install them on top of the filesystem you're trying to recover then odds are you're wiping out the very inodes you want to try to save. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.