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Cc: Xu Qiang <Qiang.Xu@fujixerox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: undelete in FreeBSD?
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Glenn Dawson wrote:

> At 07:51 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote:
>
>> I am just wondering the only shortcoming of Unix clone, such as 
>> FreeBSD, in contrast to M$ Windows, is the lack of a cyclin bin, from 
>> which you can restore anything you have mis-deleted before.
>>
>> Or, am I mis-informed on this issue?
>
>
> If you're really worried about accidently deleting files, just make rm 
> an alias to 'rm -i' or 'rm -I'
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> -Glenn
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>> Regards,
>> Xu Qiang
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Also check out chflags. Under certain security levels, you can set flags 
so that something can not be deleted even as root.

Casey