[PLUG] Creating a filename for an open, but deleted, file
Robert Citek
robert.citek at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 15:31:00 UTC 2014
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
> [I am assuming the following, correct as necessary: the inode is
> from a filesystem from /dev/sda1 and $inode is the numeric value of
> the inode, and you run this all from the mount point of the
> filesystem (the tmpname will get created in the root directory of
> the mounted filesystem), and permname is a path on the same
> filesystem. You'll need to be root.]
>
> *** BE VERY CAREFUL! ***
>
> # cd /mountpoint_of_dev_sda1
> # debugfs -w /dev/sda1
> debugfs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
> debugfs: ln <$inode> tmpname
> debugfs: quit
> # ln tmpname permname
> # debugfs -w /dev/sda1
> debugfs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
> debugfs: unlink tmpname
> debugfs: quit
>
> *** BE VERY CAREFUL! ***
Thanks. I'll give that a shot on a cloud instance and post what I discover.
Regards,
- Robert
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