Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 22:50:29 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: gh <grasshacker@linkfast.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE Message-ID: <20000603225029.A13363@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <011b01bfcd75$3706e650$2969a0d0@leviathan>; from grasshacker@linkfast.net on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:03:10AM -0500 References: <200006021842.LAA24897@usr09.primenet.com> <393855D9.F5F0E5F0@mail.ptd.net> <20000603095822.A13686@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <011b01bfcd75$3706e650$2969a0d0@leviathan>
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gh said on Jun 3, 2000 at 11:03:10: > > > > What's wrong with having an undelete command, if someone can implement > > one? > > > What a silly question. > For an operating system to have an ``undelete'' option, the OS must maintain > a copy of the deleted files...which defeats the purpose of deleting the damn > files. man 2 undelete Basically, a delete/rm command doesn't physically erase data from the disk, it only removes the file entry. The data may still be there if you're lucky. I don't know what the issues are with ufs, however. With an msdos filesystem it's pretty straightforward to get the data back if that hard disk space hasn't been written over in the meantime. > Everybody makes mistakes; it is *NOT* the job of the operating system > to pick up the poopoo left after the mistake. But it helps... R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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