Without sounding like a complete idiot, is it possible to recover text
from accidentally deleted files on a ufs filesystem?  If I can remember
a phrase from the file can I search the unused disk media for this
phrase, possibly recovering text?

I accidentally overwrote a file by cat'ting > into it.  Does Netbsd
reuse the file blocks (completely destroying the original data) or does
it in effect allocate a totally new file (leaving the possibility that
data might still exist on the disk).

I know this is a long shot but I figured it'd be better to ask.

Thanks alot for your time.

-c
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