Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:45:18 +0200 From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> To: daniel.fisher@vt.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file recovery Message-ID: <20001015004518.V61095@draenor.org> In-Reply-To: <00101310484800.52488@psych.ward.vt.edu>; from dfisher@vt.edu on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:48:48AM -0400 References: <00101310484800.52488@psych.ward.vt.edu>
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If you're lucky you may find the file in /lost+found -- sometimes corrupted files are stored there after a 'fsck', though you're not really assured that the file will be there. If it's not, then I am afraid you're out of luck. Cheers, Marc On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:48:48AM -0400, Daniel Fisher wrote: > hello, > yesterday i was working on a file in nedit (under kde) > and the power went out in my building. > i had saved this file before, but when my system came back up the file > existed, but had a size of 0 bytes. > i started searching around in tmp, but i can't seem to find where the system > might have dumped my file. > i'm guessing it's gone for good, but i was wondering if anyone knows > something i don't know about where my file might be. > also is there something i can do to ensure this doesn't happen again? > Thanks, > > -- > Daniel Fisher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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