Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Was the filesystem mounted as ext2 or ext3 when you truncated all of > the files to zero? If it was ext2, something that you might be able Unfortunately, it wasn't... > If the filesystem was mounted as ext3, then unfortunately the indirect > blocks will have been zero'ed out as part of the truncation process. > But you can still search for the blocks which are all zero's, since > they have a possibility of being a zero'ed out indirect block. So if > the files were mostly unfragmented, you can try looking 12k before the > indirect block, and see if you're at the beginning of a file. > > The limitation of this technique is that it won't help you recover > smaller files. But it might help you recover something that's > useful. > > - Ted Thank you very much for your help. > > > P.S. I should close with an obligatory plug for regular backups... Touched... But, anyway, now I know about filesystems much more than before... _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
