From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 16 18:55:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895BF16A53E for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:55:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275B643D88 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:55:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b29so613794pya for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:55:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:to:subject:from:content-type:mime-version:references:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Lncl6NOtDc4l3dU8htUSzdiRgQP9N7gQ3+FoTKuhmKNe1vBgfQge3fFOTfcSLZWgC93V06Zqy7TmEBxTUGsRvaadWxUrUcvhtl7LswdAVJECoyzdYwBjjQlOP+5Gfce3IYHu0G3B+Bh6l12dGwQ1BEfJsSi85eYsVNsfLvYVGnY= Received: by 10.35.99.5 with SMTP id b5mr1990038pym; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carpet ( [82.93.23.199]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id m68sm993003pye.2006.08.16.11.55.10; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:55:08 +0200 To: "Mark Manzano" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Martin Tournoij" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060816162149.10420.qmail@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060816162149.10420.qmail@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Re: file restoration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:55:25 -0000 On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:21:49 +0200, Mark Manzano wrote: > Hi, > I am using freeBSD Unix and someone deleted a bunch of files from the > hard drive. I know when you delete a file from unix, only the pointer or > inode is deleted and not the actual file. From a software perspective, > the information is probally gone. However on a hardware perspective I > believe the data is still there. Are there any tools to retrieve the > lost files? > This is what I want to do: > On the hardware level the hard drive is a physical storage device > with little tiny "switches" that flip between 1's and 0's. Those > switches stay set to whatever they were set at unless they are set to > something else. What I want to attach the hard drive to another computer > with a second hard drive in it (a blank one) and boot to a floppy disk. > From there, a program or tool will scan all the switches ( 1s and 0s) to > try to find patterns that indicate the presence of files. Then copy > those files to the blank hard drive. > Thank you. > > There are several commercial tools that can restore file on a UFS partition, I'm not aware of any free tools I used Stellar Phoenix (sucsesfully) a while ago after a windows crash destoyed my part of my UFS partition (grmbl!) http://www.stellarinfo.com/disk-recovery.htm#bsd Not cheap though, $355, I don't want to encourage illegal software use, but I managed to find a cracked version on the web... There are several others on the web, Use google.