Ralf Gross schrieb: > Hi, > > a user had a file open when the disk ran full. He then saved the file > and now it's size is 0 byte (ext3). I don't know much more about this, > but he asked me if there is any chance to get the data of this file > back? ext3grep /dev/sda6 --restore-file path/to/file restored only the 0 byte version but I found something with ext3grep. The user remembered that the string "static void Associate_cluster" is part of the file. ~ # ext3grep /dev/sda6 --search "static void Associate_cluster" Running ext3grep version 0.10.1 Number of groups: 53 Minimum / maximum journal block: 932 / 34660 Loading journal descriptors... sorting... done The oldest inode block that is still in the journal, appears to be from 1286405586 = Thu Oct 7 00:53:06 2010 Number of descriptors in journal: 24920; min / max sequence numbers: 63706 / 72291 Blocks containing "static void Associate_cluster": 325515 (allocated) 904535 915577 1428545 I can get some further output with 'ext3grep /dev/sda6 --block 325515' ~ # ext3grep /dev/sda6 --block 325515 Running ext3grep version 0.10.1 No --ls used; implying --print. Number of groups: 53 Minimum / maximum journal block: 932 / 34660 Loading journal descriptors... sorting... done The oldest inode block that is still in the journal, appears to be from 1286405586 = Thu Oct 7 00:53:06 2010 Number of descriptors in journal: 24920; min / max sequence numbers: 63706 / 72291 Hex dump of block 325515: 0000 | 61 6e 65 4f 66 66 73 65 74 3b 0a 20 20 20 20 73 | aneOffset;. s 0010 | 70 75 72 5f 70 6f 6c 79 5f 6d 65 73 73 2e 63 30 | pur_poly_mess.c0 [....] 0fd0 | 5f 48 6f 73 74 49 66 5f 74 20 2a 68 6f 73 74 49 | _HostIf_t *hostI 0fe0 | 66 2c 20 64 6f 75 62 6c 65 20 2a 56 61 6c 75 65 | f, double *Value 0ff0 | 4c 69 73 74 2c 20 69 6e 74 20 2a 56 61 6c 75 65 | List, int *Value ~ # ext3grep /dev/sda6 --search-inode 325515 Running ext3grep version 0.10.1 Number of groups: 53 Minimum / maximum journal block: 932 / 34660 Loading journal descriptors... sorting... done The oldest inode block that is still in the journal, appears to be from 1286405586 = Thu Oct 7 00:53:06 2010 Number of descriptors in journal: 24920; min / max sequence numbers: 63706 / 72291 Inodes refering to block 325515: 145601 ~ # ext3grep /dev/sda6 --inode 145601 Running ext3grep version 0.10.1 No --ls used; implying --print. Number of groups: 53 Minimum / maximum journal block: 932 / 34660 Loading journal descriptors... sorting... done The oldest inode block that is still in the journal, appears to be from 1286405586 = Thu Oct 7 00:53:06 2010 Number of descriptors in journal: 24920; min / max sequence numbers: 63706 / 72291 Hex dump of inode 145601: 0000 | ed 81 e8 03 2b ae 02 00 61 69 9b 4c ee c2 ad 4c | ....+...ai.L...L 0010 | 0e a8 7e 49 00 00 00 00 e8 03 01 00 60 01 00 00 | ..~I........`... 0020 | 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 77 f7 04 00 78 f7 04 00 | ........w...x... 0030 | 79 f7 04 00 7a f7 04 00 7b f7 04 00 7c f7 04 00 | y...z...{...|... 0040 | 7d f7 04 00 7e f7 04 00 7f f7 04 00 80 f7 04 00 | }...~........... 0050 | 81 f7 04 00 82 f7 04 00 83 f7 04 00 00 00 00 00 | ................ 0060 | 00 00 00 00 f2 97 92 a7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................ 0070 | 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................ Inode is Allocated Group: 9 Generation Id: 2811402226 uid / gid: 1000 / 1000 mode: rrwxr-xr-x size: 175659 num of links: 1 sectors: 352 (--> 1 indirect block). Inode Times: Accessed: 1285253473 = Thu Sep 23 16:51:13 2010 File Modified: 1286456046 = Thu Oct 7 14:54:06 2010 Inode Modified: 1233037326 = Tue Jan 27 07:22:06 2009 Deletion time: 0 Direct Blocks: 325495 325496 325497 325498 325499 325500 325501 325502 325503 325504 325505 325506 Indirect Block: 325507 So I know that there is something left of the file, but I don't know how to get it back. Ralf _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users