Words by Doug Wyatt [Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:42:27PM -0500]: > > Jose Celestino wrote: >> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* >> Words by Doug Wyatt [Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:47:55AM -0500]: >>> >> >> There's a much easier way. Well, you don't really relink the inode but >> copy the original file instead: >> >> 1. locate the open (deleted) file you want from the opening pid on /proc/$PID/fd/* >> 2. cp /proc/$PID/fd/$FD somewhere >> > > I think I read, somewhere, that in doing that I could end up > with garbage bytes at the end of the last block in the copy, > and would need to use the size from the original inode to > trim the copied file. Don't know if that's fact or not. > No. That's not true. Where have you read that? > Also, by re-linking you preserve the mtime w/o hassling with > touch. > Ok, that can be an advantage ... > Re-linking the inode seems more elegant and satisfying after > performing a klutzy move like deleting the wrong file. > ... but relinking the file can be potentially dangerous (debugfs is) and it is not guaranteed to work on all filesystems. -- Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc ---------------------------------------------------------------- "One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
