On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On May 12, 2009 21:32 +0530, ranjith kannikara wrote: >> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, ranjith kannikara >> > <ranjithkannikara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I am a computer science engineering student. We have started a project >> >> to make an application to recover deleted files from an ext3 >> >> filesystem. For that we have a doubt . Can we edit the inode content? >> >> ie the recovery will be robust if we could edit the inode contents and >> >> give the pointer address manually or through a code. The inode is >> >> being created in the kernel mode and is it possible to edit those >> >> contents if the code is allowed to have the kernel mode permissions..? >> >> But we would like to know whether it is possible to edit the inode >> because it will make the recovery easy and robust. ie he know the >> details of the inode of the file which had been deleted is it possible >> to edit the content of that inode with the pointers of the deleted >> file.? > > Are you asking whether it is possible to modify the on-disk structure > of the ext3 inode? Generally that is NOT allowed because it will of > course break all existing filesystems if not done with extreme care. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > Hi, Actually I was asking the same. whether it is possible to edit the inode content of a disk or the image of a disk. Did you mean that it is not possible at all. Is there any method to edit the inode content and use the edited inode for a file, If we can ensure high care. because such a method will be the most robust one in the recovery of deleted file. Regards ranju. -- http://www.ranjithkannikara.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
