Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

2007-02-02 Thread Tore Lund
The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. I tried fsck_msdosfs and got this meaningful answer: isidoros# fsck_msdosfs /kdisk ** /kdisk (NO WRITE) Invalid

Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

2007-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tore Lund wrote: The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. [ ... ] My question is whether I could have done anything else to make FreeBSD correct the goof

Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

2007-02-02 Thread youshi10
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: Tore Lund wrote: The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. [ ... ] My question is whether I could have done