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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2000 17:35:14 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        "Marcelo J. Iturbe" <marcelo@msm.cl>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I need to recover files and directories..
Message-ID:  <20000526173514.A16988@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000526121516.00b4db20@msm.cl>; from marcelo@msm.cl on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:20:32PM -0400
References:  <200005251730.KAA02309@mass.cdrom.com> <20000525134456.D28056@moose.bri.hp.com> <200005251730.KAA02309@mass.cdrom.com> <20000525194643.B532@myhakas.matti.ee> <4.3.1.2.20000526121516.00b4db20@msm.cl>

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On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:20:32PM -0400, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote:

> One of my users deleted a directory.
> It is not in the backups.
> Is there a way to recover? Is there a script that looks at the file systems 
> and recovers lost file pointers, I imagine that the info might still be on 
> the hard drive, just the sector was marked as usable..

If you're feeling really brave, and what was deleted was text then you
could try running strings on the raw disk device and grepping for the
data you're looking for. It works somethimes if you're lucky.

	strings /dev/rda0s1a | grep -10000 "keyword"

David.


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