Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:50:00 -0600 From: Craig Boston <cb@severious.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar> Subject: Re: Undeleting (possible?) Message-ID: <20071126194953.GA78395@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <473A1D1E.6010408@FreeBSD.org> References: <20071113174347.GA4288@servidor1.cursosvirtuales.com.ar> <473A0F7A.9010406@gmail.com> <473A1D1E.6010408@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:54:38PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Undeletion in UFS is only possible for wizards. Otherwise, your only > feasible option is to restore from backup. There's one other option that unfortunately won't help Fernando, but I actually used it (successfully!) once and am reproducing for entertainment value: Once I accidentally issued an rm -rf command on the wrong directory, and realized to my horror that I had wiped out the files I just spent several hours creating (so there were no backups yet). Since only a few seconds had passed, the thought flashed into my mind that softupdates probably hadn't flushed the metadata changes to the disk yet. So in a moment of panic, I reached over and pulled the power cord out from the back of the machine. ;-)
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