From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 20:58:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EB916A40D for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032D413C4A6 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:58:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn07.u.washington.edu (hymn07.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.53]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l12KwdCB014673 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:58:39 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn07.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l12KwdaF007975 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:58:39 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.1] by hymn07.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:58:39 PST Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:58:39 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45C37E3F.3080304@mac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.2.2.124433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:58:40 -0000 On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Tore Lund wrote: >> 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. > [ ... ] >> My question is whether I could have done anything else to make FreeBSD >> correct the goof it had made. > > Sure. People normally make backups of the data they care about in order to > avoid losing that data if a problem happens. > > (I don't know what ROX-filer is, but it's not part of FreeBSD.) > > -- > -Chuck Rox filer should be in ports; it's a file manager that some use to take care of their files. Chuck's right though--you should back up your data regularly if it's mission critical. -Garrett