[ALUG] Recovering deleted files that a process still has open

[Richard Lewis]

At Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:25:11 +0000,
Mark Rogers wrote:
> 
> Chris G wrote:
> > If you edit the virtual machine settings (via the Vmware console
> > menus) I would think that it will rewrite the .vmx file.  There's
> > certainly no harm trying, you can change a fairly innocuous setting
> 
> If there was something I could do within the VM which would cause a 
> write to the .vmx that might work, though. Any suggestions?
> 
> The VM is running SME (www.contribs.org) which is a modified CentOS 4. I 
> have access to it via SSH only.
> 
Is VMWare just a user-space program? If so, does it respond to any of
the signals you'll find in your $ kill -l

Obviously, don't send KILL or TERM to it.

I don't really know anything about this, I just wanted a break from
despairing at how thick undergraduates can be. Uh oh, did I think that
or type it? Is this thing being archived?

Richard
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