From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 18:49:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F43016A418 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:49:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@c0mplx.org) Received: from home.c0mplx.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:14f8:200::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53B913C4D9 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:49:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@c0mplx.org) Received: from pi by home.c0mplx.org with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JEUMu-000Pfx-U3; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:49:08 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:49:08 +0100 From: Kurt Jaeger To: Ronald Klop Message-ID: <20080114184908.GE74560@home.c0mplx.org> References: <575363.21897.qm@web45915.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <20080114135406.GK24099@dev.null.cz> <1200320190.478b6ebe3ce58@imp.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovery FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:49:11 -0000 Hi! > >>only from backup. > >Or from a snapshot ? > >(if it's a UFS2 partition, and "snapshooting" has been enabled) > What does rm -W do? As the manual says: -W Attempt to undelete the named files. Currently, this option can only be used to recover files covered by whiteouts. For additional explaination see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-April/001761.html and man 2 undelete It has to do with unionfs. -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 12 years to go !