Hello; sorry for this mail perhaps, but I am new in linux experience. I have a disk in ext2 format and this disk has been totally deleted by the rm command. Then the server crashed and I had to restart it. This filesystem was not clear and I run fsck.ext2 to solve bad blocks. I noticed the file .journal appeared on the root filesystem and I am asking how is it possible on linux to recover deleted files with this .journal ? If the anwser is no, do you know another way to restore them because I think disks blocks have not been destroyed but just passed to the free list as on unix system. Do you know a utility to do this ? Sorry for this post on ext3 mailing list, perhps I am wrong but I would like to have your point of view Thanks in advance Jean-Philippe BATTU Grenoble FRANCE jean-philippe.battu@bull.net