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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNdeleting files
Message-ID: <14020106@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 90 20:40:51 GMT
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>    I have lost files on one of the disks and would
>    like to follow the i-nodes to recover them, since
>    they are very large (some > 1M) and valuable.
> 
>    The files were lost when a shell-script having
>    "rm -r" was accidentally executed.  The disk was
>    immediatly (within 5 mts) unmounted and the contents
>    have since been unchanged.
> 
>    I have the i-node numbers of these files from a
>    2-month old backup.
> 
>    Operating system : Sun OS 4.0.3 (BSD 4.2)
>    Machine          : Sun 3

Read the man page for fsdb(8) (or fsdb(1M)) carefully, and then practice
removing and then restoring some other unneeded large file.

This should enable you to restore the file, if it wasn't obliterated
during the "5 mts".

Dave Decot