From: Lars =?UTF-8?B?VMOkdWJlcg==?= Subject: undelete still opened file Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:08:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20081017120852.1f04dc36.taeuber@bbaw.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.bbaw.de ([194.95.188.6]:58907 "EHLO mail.bbaw.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753493AbYJQK0D (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:26:03 -0400 Received: from mailhub.bbaw.de (unknown [192.168.4.1]) by mail.bbaw.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8B04A8059 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:07:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub.bbaw.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A36593794 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:07:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from taeuber.bbaw.de (taeuber.bbaw.de [192.168.1.148]) by mailhub.bbaw.de (Postfix) with SMTP id EBC2D9378F for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:07:37 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi there! If this should be the wrong mailing list please excuse me but I didn't find any better suiting. I just subscribed after unsuccessfully searching on the net for an answer to my question. Is it possible to undelete an accidentally deleted file that is still opened by a process? As far as I know the file is not really deleted as long there is a file descriptor connected to the file. I thought about something in connection with /proc/####/fd/# . Is there any chance to get the file back to normal? - Linux 2.6.[12]x - ext3 or nfs (should be independent of fs, wouldn't it?) Thanks and best regards. Lars PS: Sorry for my english.