Russell Miller wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Russell Miller <duskglow@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:duskglow@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Doug Wyatt <dwyatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dwyatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Here's the situation - I have video file, currently open in Mplayer, which I accidentally deleted from its directory. So, the storage and inode still exist as long as I don't close the Mplayer. Does anyone know of a way, using available commands or via system calls in a program, to reestablish a link from a directory to the inode? You might try going into debugfs, finding the inode, and seeing if you can tell it it's not deleted anymore. It's not actually deleted until all the references are closed, so I think it might be possible (I don't know the internal details of what happens when a file is deleted but not closed so I may be wrong). Oh hey. Look what I found. http://dag.wieers.com/blog/undeleting-an-open-file-by-inode Still risky but at least you won't be flying blind. --Russell
Excellent! Debugfs was exactly what I was looking for. I already had the inode number from lsof. Going into debugfs and using 'ln' and 'set_inode_field' (for incrementing the link count) took care of my problem. I did download the source for 'fdlink', mentioned in a comment on <dag.wieers.com>, and looked it over. But I decided, for this situation, debugfs was less likely to cause a problem. Again, many thanks! Doug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
