> > 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. > > Was it running ext2 or ext3 when you deleted it? I was running under ext2. > > Well, restoring from backups will be the only remotely easy answer if > you've managed to delete the whole filesystem --- most of the metadata > about which blocks went where and what the files were called is simply > gone. A bit more of the metadata will have survived if you were using > ext2. If there are any really critical files you want to recover then > you could start looking through the fs manually for them, but there is > no chance of an automatic complete recovery. > > Cheers, > Stephen could you explain which are theses metadata and how I could recover them manually on the filesystem Thanks for you help ! Cheers ! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Philippe BATTU Phone : (33) 04 76 29 73 43 Localisation: B1/403 Fax : (33) 04 76 29 75 18 Mail : jean-philippe.battu@bull.net Bull, 01 Rue de Provence B.P. 208 38432 Echirolles FRANCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------
