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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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