From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 16:29:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D0B37B400 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g5KNTQtS033488; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:29:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:29:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ken Carnahan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recover files Message-ID: <20020620232926.GA77631@dan.emsphone.com> References: <003201c218b1$935ed960$151e5142@hewlett2ih5nie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003201c218b1$935ed960$151e5142@hewlett2ih5nie> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 20), Ken Carnahan said: > I noticed in the man page for 'rm' that it states that you can > usually recover the contents of the file that you deleted, and to use > shred if you want it to be really non recoverable. > > I was just curious, how can you recover the contents of a file that > you used rm on ? su to root, dd the raw partition and scan for text that you recognize. Not sure where you read this, though. rm's manpage has no mention of a "shred" command. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message