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RE: recover file after cat /dev/null > file

To: "'Bernhard R. Erdmann'" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Cistaro <jim.cistaro@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: recover file after cat /dev/null > file
From: "Gonyou, Austin" <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:43:59 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Agreed. If the fs_sync() has already occurred, and data , even zeros or null
space, have replaced the original contents, I don't see how you could
actually get "all" of the data back, but perhaps the part which hasn't been
over-written, if the full extent of the contents weren't affected, could be
intact.

-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernhard R. Erdmann [mailto:be@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:56 PM
> To: Jim Cistaro
> Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: recover file after cat /dev/null > file
> 
> 
> Jim Cistaro wrote:
> > 
> > if /dev/null has been catted over an existing file,
> > is there any way to recover data based on inodes (or anything else)?
> 
> your backup tapes?
> 


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