Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:31:26 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering Lost Inode? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027215943.1224C-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <3455334C.D2AD37F6@reef.com>
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i've always wondered why when a file was deleted there was an intelegent way of moving it to a volitile directory where it could be overwritten at any time, but if moved out of that dir it would be marked non-volitile again.... (maybe i've used win95 once too many...) -Alfred On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, James Buszard-Welcher wrote: > Thanks for the response. I'm sure it's too late now, with inode > recycling, etc. However, if I had been unable to umount the > filesystem... (we now enter the theoretical zone) > *could* I have been able to use somekindof Norton's Utilities-esque > package for UNIX which could check inodes and look for ones that > were 'file starters', and maybe check the that if all of the inodes > pointed to by that starter inode (it was big file so I excect > a level or two of inode redirection) were still intact it could > pull it back? Kinda like an 'un-delete' fsck? Ever hear of > such a thing? > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 02:10:04PM -0600, James Buszard-Welcher wrote: > > > I had a daemon writing to a file... I then rm-ed the file, but the > > > daemon still had the filehandle and was writing to it. > > > > > > Well... I killed the daemon, which had been writing to this invisible > > > inode. > > > > > > Is there ANY way (fsdb, fsck, some great perl hack) to find out what > > > this inode was and link it back into some directory so I can get at > > > the file contents? > > > > Not after you stopped the daemon. Then the link count goes to 0 and > > the file is removed. > > > > Greg > > -- > James Buszard-Welcher | VOX 847.729.8600 | "It's not the stuff... > Technical Director | FAX 847.729.1560 | it's the power to > Silicon Reef, Inc. | PGR 800.418.0016 | *MAKE* the stuff." >
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