Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

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 anything else to make FreeBSD
>> correct the goof it had made.
>
> Sure.  People normally make backups of the data they care about in order to 
> avoid losing that data if a problem happens.
>
> (I don't know what ROX-filer is, but it's not part of FreeBSD.)
>
> -- 
> -Chuck

Rox filer should be in ports; it's a file manager that some use to take care of their files.

Chuck's right though--you should back up your data regularly if it's mission critical.
-Garrett