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royco
Asked: 2019-03-15 06:44:01 +0800 CST

Recover file damaged by vi when over quota?

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A user edited a file while he was over quota, and the new file could not be written back to disk. He used vi. The disk is on a NFS server which uses XFS. CentOS 6 on the NFS server and CentOS 7 on the client.

His home directory was not over quota. It was another disk.

Any way to retrieve the file?

linux

2 Answers

  1. The only way: Restore it from backup. No backup? No file.

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  2. Best Answer

    The user found the swap file and/or backup ~ file in his home directory. I thought I looked there first, but I must have overlooked them before turning to ServerFault.

    It's still a dangerous situation. Users who exceed quotas are risking data loss, in my opinion.

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