Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:30:49 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A way to recover deleted files (just contents) from USF2 Message-ID: <p0600201dbcab002a9d48@[10.0.1.5]> In-Reply-To: <20040420130803.GC62962@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4084F85B.5070909@delit.net> <20040420102632.GA36668@e-Gitt.NET> <20040420121423.GA1154@frontfree.net> <20040420125025.GA30066@energistic.com> <20040420130803.GC62962@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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At 3:08 PM +0200 2004/04/20, Daniel Lang 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. [ ... deletia ... ] > simple solution: > > alias rm="rm -i" We recently discussed this subject on FreeBSD-Chat. Please see the thread including my message at <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2004-April/002292.html>. In short: been there, done that -- fifteen years ago. [0] There are major problems with this concept which need to be solved in different ways. [0] Not the twenty that I had originally claimed, due to my faulty memory. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "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 <http://www.sage.org/>; for more info.
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