Thanks to all the people who replied. I tried salvage utility without
success.
The general answer is NO to my question. Blinn wrote the following:
" In general, the answer is "NO". Even though you might think that
nothing
has been written to the disk, at a minimum, AdvFS has written changes to
the directory structures onto the disk. Although you MIGHT get lucky and
manage to find the traces of the deleted directory and its files, you can
not assume that ANY of the linkages that lead to the directory are still
in place anywhere on the disk. And you'd have to really understand ALL
of the AdvFS on-disk metadata structures, both at the fileset level and
at the domain level, and they differ between the V4.x on-disk formats and
the V5.x on-disk formats (and the documentation most people are likely to
be familiar with if they've taken support training is for the V4.x format
and not the V5.x format, unless they have take updated training).
There are ways in AdvFS to protect yourself against this sort of thing but
they don't work very well.
Consider it a painful but useful lesson about what things UNIX protects you
against, and what things it doesn't."
Tom
The following people replied to my mail. Thanks very much.
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Wolfram Kraft
Clegg Larry
Rodney Simioni
Zelenak Gabor
Thomas Blinn
John Tan
Michael Bucholtz
Alan
Question:
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Hi,
Is it possible to recover an accidently deleted directory? There is no
backup for this directory. Nothing has been written on the disk after
the deletion. OS is V5.1 Any tools? AdvFS is used. This is part of a
user home directory.
regards,
Kumar
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 10:27:14 NZST