Restoring by i-node?

[Joe Smith]

In article <8364 at brazos.Rice.edu> grant at saturn.cs.swin (Grant Collins) writes:

>I wish to extract a file from a level 0 dump tape using restore and the
>files' i-node number.  This is because a filesystem became corrupted and
>fsck has placed the files in lost+found using the files' i-node as part of
>its name.

So your basic problem is that you know the inode number, but not the
original name(s) of the file.  This information is in the dump tape's
table of contents.

	# restore tf /dev/rst8 | sort >/tmp/dump.toc
	# egrep '1234|4567|932' /tmp/dump.toc
	# restore ivf /dev/rst8
	restore> add thisfile foo/thatfile bar/otherfile
	restore> extract

The 't' option to restore gets the table of contents, which is piped into
sort to make it easier to find the other names of a file that has hard
links.  Use grep to find the inodes in question and it will print the
names associated with those files.

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