From: Jeff Quast (af.dingogmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2005 - 09:57:02 CST

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Too bad its mp3s you lost, because you need to know a piece of what
your looking for to find it, like google. However, in case this
happens to you again for ASCII text, or future readers, I'll explain
the method I used to recover.
Once I deleted two days worth of C code by typing rm file.c when i
meant rm file.o -- duhrrr. I immediately unmounted the partition and
used the program hexedit on /dev/sd0x, I then used its search feature
to search for a name of a function i had coded that was unique. It
took about 2 hours.
When I found it, I used hexedit's select and copy to new file feature
to save it. I can't tell you how relieved I was! In fact, I may have
been caught doing a little dance :)
Sorry I can't answer your question to restore your mp3s, but I hope it
helps in the future. Just make sure you unmount the fs that holds your
deleted files asap, so that any new writes wont overlap your deleted
files.

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:57:17 +0100, Martin Larsson <oddbsdfettan.org> wrote:
> hi, is there by chance anything like ntfs restore or any way to restore
> deleted files for openbsd filesystem?
> my mistake i deleted all my mp3s which i have no backup on.
> The drive was mounted with softdep if it would matter.
>
> best regards martin
>
>

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:wq!

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