I'm sitting here in Seoul, Korea (which is very nice, by the way) and
I've just managed to delete all 82 images of Kyoto off the FAT-12 format
Smartcard they were on. Waaaah!
Well, that is to say that I mv'd them off from FreeBSD (and I hope our MSDOSFS
code doesn't do anything really weird there) and then proceeded to fat-finger
a command in the shell which deleted them off my UFS filesystem. Once
I noticed that fsdb seems to be read-only no matter what you do with it
these days, and not really knowing how to use it to resurrect deleted
directory slots, I resolved to go back to the original smartcard
(which I've saved an image of, my brain having returned from the dark,
musty place it must have been when I thought to do image reshuffling
while tired). I notice with od -c that it's FAT-12 and first thought
to simply edit the first byte of each filename back to what it was, since
it being mangled was the first thing I noticed in "beav". That resulted
in the filenames being viewable again, but I still can't copy the files
since that returns EFAULT. Clearly there's something else I'm missing
here when it comes to resurrecting deleted files off a DOS FS, and
Win98 doesn't appear to have an "undelete" (I looked) so I'm really
at a loss. I'd buy a copy of Norton or something at this point, but
I wouldn't even know where to find such a thing in Korea. Any suggestions?
They were some really nice pictures and I hate the idea of losing
them. :-( Thanks! I've certainly learned my lesson for at least
another year or two....
- Jordan
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