Recovering a Deleted Open File

[Mike Kallies]

Hello Everyone,

I was gzipping a mammoth tarball and didn't realize that the gzip
process had not yet completed before I deleted the original.

I'm concerned that the gzip will run out of space, the process will drop
its file handle and the file will be freed.  So I did a ctrl-z to stop
the process, and checked the open files.  It's still there, all is good.

sooo... how do I give a handle back to /home/mike/Win2k3-d.tar ?

gzip Win2k3-d.tar

^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 gzip Win2k3-d.tar
mike at x24:~$ su -
Password:
root at x24:~# lsof | grep Win2k3-d.tar
gzip       2700        mike    3r      REG      254,1 9011978240
343840 /home/mike/Win2k3-d.tar (deleted)
gzip       2700        mike    4w      REG      254,1 2097266688
343841 /home/mike/Win2k3-d.tar.gz
root at x24:~#


(I know there may be better ways to solve the problem, but I heard that
this kind of "undelete" was possible, but I've never done it, so it
seems like a good thing to try)

Thanks,

-Mike
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