From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 16:11:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BD516A420 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:11:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FBFE43D60 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:11:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 62159 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Nov 2005 16:11:01 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=4qdCEIJgjnQw2GmdSbf49HEb1JfXeU+Y95hGaj3T4/F+86Mq5Pk9ULQApUUj+aw+8Jhq837VrosR+loMExO8q4I6oIFln2MKXEEE9Oo+e35M6wpGyiv7kqXJ5Vmunly754lfLT91oF2B1P8iSlYctMFMO/WwlgPn6IL0SB072hM= ; Message-ID: <20051126161101.62157.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [213.54.75.219] by web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:11:01 PST Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:11:01 -0800 (PST) From: Arne "Wörner" To: user In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remind me ... (file undelete on FreeBSD 5.4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:11:06 -0000 --- user wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Arne Wörner wrote: > > > Hmm... I think there was such a problem before on a > > freebsd list... > > > > Did u tell your box to do "rm -rf local" or to do > > "rm -rf local/"? > > Yes, that is exactly what I did - I autocompleted > the symlink and it deleted the target and left the > symlink intact. Is this expected, or > unexpected behavior ? > Hmm... Interesting question... :-)) Maybe it would be nicer, if "local/." would be the directory that "local" points to (and not already "local/"... In your case it was obviously not the expected behaviour from your personal point of view (I would guess)... But now u and everybody else, who stepped in that "trap" before, will expect it in the future... :-)) > It's part of the sleuthkit. I don't need a gui, so > I think I will just use the sleuthkit. > Ok... I never used it... Since my history teacher complained for years about a stolen/misplaced LP (a big black plate with irregular groovings that can be pinned on a noise-making-device), that contained the copy of several H*tl*r speeches taken from wax rolls, and since I deleted my floppies and/or hard discs thoroughly and completely unintentionally multiple times, I do not even try to restore on that level... :-)) I prefer backups on DVDs (some weeks ago I found, that cheap DVDs cannot be used with my DVD burner as expected... the fricking thing can just write the first 3GB good enough... *shoot!*)... I hope you can restore a lot of ur data... I just remembered, that there is a tool called "fsdb" (file system debugger; it is already contained in the base system), which might see deleted files and directory-files... Maybe increasing the link count (from 0 to 1) of those directory entries brings back the files/dirs? Maybe I am too naive... -Arne __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs