On Mar 05, 2003 21:24 -0500, Greg Hennessy wrote: > In a fit of irony, while preparing to burn a CDROM > with some software I've been writing for about six months, > I did a rm *>o instead of rm *.o on an ext3 filesystem. > And I'm well aware that under normal circumstance you > can't undelete, especially a ext3 filesystem. However, > I need to at least *try* to recover this. I've built > lde (linux disk editor) and if I can isolate a certain block, > I can at least get the data off, since I've unmounted the partition. > All my source files have a certain #include, so does anyone > have an efficient way to read an unused block from an ext3 > partition, check if a certain string is present, and if so > return the block number? I've never deal with filesystem > code (Just a scientific programmer) so if anyone has > a skeleton set of code that I could use as a basis I would be > most happy. One possibility (probably good for perl programmers): dumpe2fs <dev> - use the " Free Blocks" lines dd bs=<blocksize> if=<dev> skip=<blocknum> | strings | grep "include ..." Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
