Yes, the ESX filesystem is VMFS3. I haven't used this, but there's a driver here:
http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/ Jeff On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Steven M. Caesare > <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: > > Thanks… it’s a personal machine that I was actually going to xfer to a > > friend, so it doesn’t warrant that… I was just hoping somebody had > written a > > quick-n-dirty undelete to rebuild the inodes… but alas I’ll probably just > > rebuild. > > I don't know jack about ESX*, so I haven't been commenting on this > one... but... you mentioned "Linux filesystem".... doesn't VMware use > its own proprietary filesystem? If it's actually EXT2FS, I know I've > seen undelete utilities for it. If it's EXT3FS, supposedly undelete > is not possible after-the-fact because of the way the metadata > journaling workings. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
