In article <3bt5f.1356$S_1.1146@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>,
Pritchie wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know of a way to restore a deleted directory on OpenBSD 3.7?
>
>I've just deleted directory of files and I need them back.
>
>I've tried downloading Sleuth Kit
>http://www.sleuthkit.org/
>
>however I can only figure out how to restore delete files (in existing
>directories), and not directories and files
>
>Can anyone help please
>Pritchie

Ouch. Basically, you can't. On a Unix system, generally, deleted stuff is
the first stuff that gets reused.

In case files are really, really important, unmounting the affected filesystem
quickly is about the best way around (I would even go farther and pull
the power plug, reboot single-user, fsck everything but the affected
partition, and try to recover the files at that point if that was REALLY
important files.

From what you've mentionned (e.g., not unmount fs quickly), I'd say those
files are pretty far gone...