Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Morgan Read wrote: >> Vivek J. Patankar wrote: >>> Dave Stevens wrote: >>>> I've been given a Ubuntu disk that has had some files erased. >>>> Immediately after >>>> erasing them the drive was pulled and stored. I propose to mount it >>>> under FC6 >>>> and try to recover files. I have the file names. Any pointers? >>>> programs? reading? >>> I have a good experience recovering files from an almost dead IDE disk >>> using R-Tools' R-Linux data recovery tool. It is free (commercially, not >>> opensource) MS Windows utility. >>> >>> http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml >>> >>> I managed to recover almost all of the content that I wanted to restore. >>> >> What about on ext3? >> M. >> >> > As long as it was properly unmounted, you can treat it as an ext2 > file system. A ext3 file system is an ext2 file system with > journaling enabled. > Please correct me if I'm wrong... But, I understood that ext3 journalling cleared references in inodes to deleted files (or parts thereof) to prevent some sort of corruption on remounting on reboot - so, unlike ext2, although the info's on the disk there's no way to find it because the references are all gone - if your lucky and some of your files are in one place, you might find them by searching though the media for common file identifiers, but otherwise they're history. As you can tell from my description I'm no expert, so please jump in and correct me if I'm wrong - I'd eagerly like to know for the next time I'm imprudent with the 'rm' command... (As I have been before...) M. -- Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> fedora: Freedom Forever! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview "By choosing not to ship any proprietary or binary drivers, Fedora does differ from other distributions. ..." Quote: Max Spevik http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220 RMS on Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF
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