At 18:19 31-1-2002 -0800, Gabe E. Nydick wrote: Pay about 10K anywhere up, depending on the size of the drive to have it professionally done. Try using grep and dd. I have used that before to rescue
[insert amount of random swearwords] lost data then, eh? 10K is just a little bit above what I can spend, although I was aware of the option :-) Thanks for the help anyways. XFS reuses the freed bloc
Unfortunately there is no substitute for backups, because xfs uses complex on disk structures it is very difficult to get data back from a file once you remove it. Sure, if you did not allocate anyth
At 11:47 1-2-2002 -0500, King Kac wrote: [insert amount of random swearwords] lost data then, eh? 10K is just a little bit above what I can spend, although I was aware of the option :-) Thanks for th
If you have enough space left there is nothing that would force reuse of that same space directly afterwards. You could be lucky. When you can find the inode of the deleted file again and its extent
Unfortunately when we free an inode we also remove all the extents from it. So even if those extents used to be in the inode, they are not there now. The reason this happens is that deleting a file i
I see. The extents would be in a btree which would be likely rebalanced on the extent freeing and that would destroy them because they're inline in the btree. Is that correct? Thanks, -Andi
Andi Kleen wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:02:58PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote: When you can find the inode of the deleted file again and its extent btrees are not destroyed it should be possible to re
So I'm trying to recover some deleted files on my xfs-formatted hw raid array mounted on /home I read off of this newsgroup that xfsrestore was the tool to use. Here's what I'm trying to do: xfsdump
Sorry, xfsrestore is only good if you've previously xfsdumped. If you deleted a file, the data may still be there on disk (as with any other filesystem) but there's no automated way to recover it. -E
That's what I was afraid of. What's the hard way of recovering it then? On 2002.01.31 20:24 Eric Sandeen wrote: Sorry, xfsrestore is only good if you've previously xfsdumped. If you deleted a file, t