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10 questions linked to/from Can a file be retrieved by its inode?
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open a file by inode number [duplicate]
Is there any way to find exactly the blocks allocated to a inode, and view that file? I don't care if I have to be on a live cd, but i need to do this for example:
cat verylongsentice > a
ls -i a
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Is there any way to recover files from the informations in `/proc`? [duplicate]
I have just asked in an interview that if someone mistakenly deletes apache logfile from /var/log/apache/access.log while it's being written, can you recover it?
After my answer interviewer said that ...
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Deleted directory of a running program [duplicate]
I started a program on a directory but accidentally removed it, and the program inside. The program generates a couple of output files. The program is still running. I wonder if I create the same ...
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Deleted file being written to by running process, can I recreate it? [duplicate]
I've started a long running process with nohup and redirected it's output to a log file
Example:
nohup ./bin/zkServer.sh start-foreground > /usr/local/myuser/logs/zkout.log 2>&1 &
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How to create a hard link to an inode (ext4)?
If I know the index node (inode) of a file, but I don't know its path (or any of its paths), is it possible to create a hard link to that inode directly?
I could find the file using sudo find / -inum ...
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How to restore a deleted file while it's still being opened?
I tried
xtricman⚓ArchVirtual⏺️~🤐ls /proc/self/fd/ -l
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lrwx------ 1 xtricman users 64 1月 16 16:34 0 -> /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 xtricman users 64 1月 16 16:34 1 -> /dev/pts/0
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Is there a tool to create a hard link to an unlinked inode?
Assume you have a filename/directory name, whatever, which is hard linked to inode 6400. Alas, the file/directory actually exists (completely intact, and maybe it only lives in a single data block, ...
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Reading stale file data with debugfs cat
I'm trying to read the contents of a file using the file's inode.
This works fine:
echo "First line" > data.txt
sync
sudo debugfs -R "cat <$(stat -c %i data.txt)>" /dev/...
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can we specify number of inode & data block?
I learned that number of inode and datablock is assigned when created,
but for example, if we want "text.txt" this file to be stored in inode number 20 or datablock number 20, can we do it?
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I Node and Data Retrieval
Is there a way possible to open a data block without the file if we know the i node number that it's linked to ? Is it possible to open the content in data block without the file ?
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