Can I create a link to an inode?

[Russell Miller]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Doug Wyatt <dwyatt at sunflower.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
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> 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
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