Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:28:20 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Accidentally truncated crontab Message-ID: <200408091928.20307.dgw@liwest.at>
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Hi all! I just emptied the system crontab, and don't know how I can recover it. I know that the contents are still somewhere on the drive, as I didn't write anything on that partition. The size of the file must be stored somewhere in the inode, or maybe in the directory, so I could just load the raw partition into my hexeditor and change that field to the original length. But I thought I'd better not touch it without consulting the experts first, because I don't have much experience with file systems. In the ports I couldn't find an undelete utility, and the -w option to rm doesn't work here. Please help me, or at least tell me that there's nothing else I can do, so I can use the method mentioned above. Regards, Daniela
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