Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:36:36 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Thomas Foster <tbonius@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2 Recovery Questions Message-ID: <20050227163636.GA1672@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <00f201c515fa$8caef250$4300a8c0@home.lan> References: <00f201c515fa$8caef250$4300a8c0@home.lan>
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:43:45PM -0800, Thomas Foster wrote: > Please excuse me if this is not the correct forum in which to ask this question and please try to bear with me. I was hoping to understand a few things about attempting to retrieve information from a drive on my FreeBSD 5.3 system. > > I recently was rearranging my web server content and accidentally removed a symbolic link recursively > > root@host # rm -rf music Are you sure the command wasn't rm -fr music/? The final / can make a big differnece with symlinks. It forces the system to look it up as a directory first, and without that, I think it would only remove the symlink. Also, -r should never be needed for a symlink, even if it point to a directory. > > The music link pointed to a directory that existed on a spserate drive mounted as /storage > > music -> /storage/Music/Mp3s > <snip> > > Now the questions is.. are the files even recoverable? Is this a lost cause? Any additional information required, any comments or suggestions, anything would be helpful. I thank you for your time in the matter. > > Thomas Foster > http://www.section6.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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