From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 13:01:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB275106567A for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.bzerk.org [82.95.223.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347958FC26 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7ED3aJR083124; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:03:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m7ED3aRd083123; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:03:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:03:36 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Ruel Luchavez Message-ID: <20080814130336.GA82855@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Ruel Luchavez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:03:43 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recover Deleted File FreeBSD 7.0 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: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:44 -0000 Restore from your backups (you DO have backups, don't you?) ;) Otherwise, there's no easy way to do this. If the data you deleted is very valuable, first thing to do is umount the filesystem, preventing the data of the deleted files from being overwritten by any new filesystem writes. There might be some companies specializing in recovering your data, but it'll cost you money. Ik the files are in ascii, you might get some of the data back by using strings, grep, dd and other tools on the disk device. G'luck, Ruben On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:55:37PM +0800, Ruel Luchavez typed: > Hi List, > > Do you have an idea how to recover a deleted directory or files in freebsd > 7.0? > I'm very sad that one of the important directory in my server was deleted > accidentally. > the command is use to delete the directory is: > > rm -r folder > > > Any idea guys how to recover it? > > Thanks in advance.... > > > FreeBSD rocks....:D > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"