Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-06 Thread sean
Alan McKinnon wrote: What kind of card? It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that can undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain Mr Peter Norton when I was still but a little lad... I think they have a compact flash

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-06 Thread sean
Mick wrote: It goes without saying that you should create an image of the card on your machine using e.g. dd, mount it using -o loop and then perform any recovery with testdisk or what not on that image. I pointed them to the testdisk package and the instructions.

[gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-04 Thread sean
Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system, accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it was plugged into the camera. Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in such a circumstance? I already told them not to use the card

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, August 4, 2009 17:24, sean wrote: Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system, accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it was plugged into the camera. Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in such a

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-04 Thread sean
Jesús Guerrero wrote: photorec is probably perfect for this concrete task. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Thanks, I will pass it on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:24:13 sean wrote: Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system, accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it was plugged into the camera. Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in such a

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:24:13 sean wrote: Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system, accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it was plugged into the camera. Is there any software to