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

[Mark Rogers]

I may have found the "solution", and why it won't work in my case....

See http://www.linux.com/articles/58142 for details, but:
    sudo lsof | grep deleted
.. gives a list of files open by processes that have been deleted, or 
alternatively
    sudo lsof | grep vmx
.. gives a list of open .vmx files

Given that info I could (in theory) work out the file descriptor 
information and recover the file from /proc (I won't duplicate the above 
article here).

However (and it's a big "however"), it turns out that VMWare does not 
keep the .vmx files open after all, so I appear to have lost it.

This would have worked had I deleted the vmdk (disk image) files so 
that's something, I guess. Rebuilding a .vmx file from scratch is a 
nuisance more than anything else.

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