"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:46, Francesco Pirozzi wrote: > > > it happened with my RH73 that the same partition (ext3 fs, of course) was mounted > > onto > > two different mount points ( "/" and "/mnt/removable" respectively) and a copy of > > files > > from one path to another (e.g. "cp /opt/myfile /mnt/removable/opt) reveiled to be > > an overwriting procedure. Now I have 0 byte size files on /mnt/removable (aka "/") > > partition and I wonder whether is possible to retrieve - at least - parts of the > > data blocks. > > > I have two questions for you: > > 1. do you think the data are still present somewhere in the disk? > > Yes, it should be. > > > 2. Is in the world any procedure to allow to put all the pieces of the puzzle (I > > mean the data > > blocks) together again? > > Nothing other than manual hunting for the data with a tool like lde, I'm > afraid (unless you've got a backup!) > > Cheers, > Stephen > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users Actually, lde is the tool I'm using and I'm looking for a command-line procedure to search throughout the fs in order to find all the data blocks that are not just filled with zeros. Can you suggest me any, please? Thank you. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
