Thanks, Ralf and all, you guys have given me a solid info to study on. Thanks
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 17:32 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> > For what file systems? >> >> any, ext2, 3 or 4 . just asked in general perspective. so instead of >> reading all the material on the net and filter out the garbage which >> is very time consuming. so just to make my studies time efficient and >> other like me also get some help as well. > > Parted Magic is a good live media to use. > On Parted Magic there are command line tools such as ext3grep and > extundelete and others. > > Mount the partition, where you deleted files as read only first. The > recovered data will be written to another partition. Any writing to the > partition with the deleted folders and files can overwrite important > directory entries and/or data. Note, even reading can cause a write, > IIRC e.g. if you don't mount with noatime, the last read access will be > written to a file. > > I don't have all those commands and options in mind, but take care to > use options that will recover the data in a human readable/usable > format. IOW you'll get "/my_dir/my_file_a /my_dir/my_file_b" etc. and > not "no_dir_cryptic_filename_a no_dir_cryptic_filename_b". > They also have got options to recover data that is from a special time > etc.. > > All those tools for ext3 come with patches, they are usable for ext4, > theoretically. In practice 99% of your data will be lost. > > I still have 2 unmounted ext4 partitions since December 2011. I nearly > couldn't recover anything, but sure, I got back some data. if that is the case do you mean i should shift from ext4 to ext3. since i am using ext4 however there is no specific reason of using ext4. > > I experienced recovering partition tables as working 100% perfect. If > there are errors on a HDD I experienced fsck -fcyv, fsck -f -y etc. as > working properly too. > > You should read howtos. Use links e.g. given from an updated Wiki, the > home page of the current version of your recovery live media you're > using etc.. You never know if there won't be new tools or important > changes. > > Hth, > Ralf > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336655317.2307.43.camel@precise > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cagwvfmk9q_se3jj86qv70kawyr1oz614b4ay34cymoo_d92...@mail.gmail.com