Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:27:39 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: List Free Bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to recover (at least part of) a deleted file? Message-ID: <727aea72f33ead7f40aa1879f518dcf8@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <6f7cb04cff85c6aef9d1f9d3e1b5a866@shire.net> References: <c83e8f8add9503e8587376cc5f2ead2d@shire.net> <6f7cb04cff85c6aef9d1f9d3e1b5a866@shire.net>
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On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have a 5.3-REL-p5 system and I accidently deleted an apache log >> before processing it. I would like to recover as much as possible >> from it. I have been looking in the sysutils ports and Googling but >> have not come up with a way of doing this. What is the best way to >> attempt to recover a lost file or its contents, or as much as >> possible of it??? >> > > I should mention -- this is ufs2 > And in case it matters, what happened was I mv'ed the file to a different name and created a new log file. ie % mv access_log access_log.20050309; touch access_log I restarted apache I then accidently did the move again so it replaced my previous saved copy with a new smaller one. Chad
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