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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