On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> What are the pros and cons when compared to ext3grep and extundelete? >> > Carlo wood's ext3grep uses Journal entries to recover the files. If I'm not > wrong extundelete ,is an extension of ext3grep which supports ext4. > If Journal entries are lost or overwritten,It would be difficult for them to > recover. (Please correct me,If I'm wrong :D ) > > extcarve doesn't depend on journal entries - It scans the disk for valid > magic signature of a file and tries to recover them. > I think extcarve similar to tool like foremost > http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ > > Good, I tested these three tools on one of my disk, which I deleted many files last week, the results shows: ext3grep can list what I deleted, but cannot recover extundelete can recover part of my files extcarve, fails to recover any of my files, it is keeping print messages like this: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415494 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415495 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415496 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415497 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415498 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415499 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415500 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415501 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415502 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415503 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415504 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415505 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415506 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415507 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415508 which contains non-zero data: no header found.at all Searching Unused block 415509 which contains non-zero data: I saw almost a million of such lines. >> >> In addition, what is the Pen drive? I mean, since we need to attach an >> external harddrive, why don't we run the command within the harddrive? >> > > I was just extra-careful, I have seen some new users installs the recover > software on the affected partition itself,which is not a good thing (The > recover software may overwrite the file,user wants to recover) .Yes,you can > install the command on external hard-drive and use it. > > Okay, I see, thank you. Jidong _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
