sorry ignore the last paragraph it was due to Email-Draft in Google. Thanks.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/cagwvfmm-gk23wkttel5dvpd4a2mpq8kj0lu6kzu4v_ufif1...@mail.gmail.com