Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:51:28 +0100 From: Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition Message-ID: <45C37A20.2050003@netscape.net>
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The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a
file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I
should have seen a familiar filename. I tried fsck_msdosfs and got this
meaningful answer:
isidoros# fsck_msdosfs /kdisk
** /kdisk (NO WRITE)
Invalid signature in boot block: 0000
Not much help there, so I booted into Windows and ran chkdsk /f on the
slice in question. The only thing it was able to recover was 4 kB of
binary zeroes.
Now, this was not a very important file. And I may have written to the
slice since losing that file, so it may indeed have been unrecoverable.
My question is whether I could have done anything else to make FreeBSD
correct the goof it had made. The answer from fsck_msdosfs above does
not tell me a lot, and one fine day this may happen to some really
important file that has not yet been backed up.
--
Tore
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