Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Linux For You december Issue I think has a article on Data Recovery from crashed hard Disks. Its probably not for novices but gives a fairly good over view of the effort involved and what could be done. Sorry I don't know if there is a link to it on the net but you could check out the

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-18 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nitin, Firstly, request you to keep this on the mailing list so that everyone gets a chance to contribute and benefit. Nitin == Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nitin Hello, I am sending this email directly to you, coz you are

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-18 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hello, I am working to recover the data, i tried grep and dd method to recover the data, i am able to recover the text of emails. is there any way, such i can recover the complete files??? like, i am grepping to find a pattern, from that getting the offset and then using dd on it, can i do

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-18 Thread Gora Mohanty
Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working to recover the data, i tried grep and dd method to recover the data, i am able to recover the text of emails. is there any way, such i can recover the complete files??? No. Consider yourself lucky that you are able to recover that much.

[ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hello, Somehow my ext3 partition of linux got crashed. It have all the important data including emails. I tried a number of software, but none of it was successful. Is there any way, we can get my data from there??? Please help me . Regards, Nitin Gupta

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Gora Mohanty
Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow my ext3 partition of linux got crashed. It have all the important data including emails. I tried a number of software, but none of it was successful. Is there any way, we can get my data from there??? [...] It would help if you gave us more

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Nitin Gupta
Firstly it got corrupted, so i ran e2fsck on it. While it was running, my system got restarted(power failure) and it never started back. :( then i tried commands like tune2fs, dump2fs etc etc... and by default wrote mke2fs :( which made it a new partition and removed all of my data. Hope this

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Gora Mohanty
Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly it got corrupted, so i ran e2fsck on it. While it was running, my system got restarted(power failure) and it never started back. :( then i tried commands like tune2fs, dump2fs etc etc... and by default wrote mke2fs :( which made it a new

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hello, I am ready to shed my pockets for my emails, but i want someone real expert who can do it. Is anyone of you know a real linux recovery expert? Also, how much will he charge?? I am thinking to visit nehru palace tomorrow and see, anyone there might be able to do something. Any

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Gora Mohanty
Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am ready to shed my pockets for my emails, but i want someone real expert who can do it. Is anyone of you know a real linux recovery expert? Also, how much will he charge?? Sorry, no idea on any of these. I am actually not sure that it is even

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Saurabh Nanda
I am ready to shed my pockets for my emails, but i want someone real expert who can do it. Is anyone of you know a real linux recovery expert? Also, how much will he charge?? If e-mails (text only) is your primary concern I *think* the following solution might work: o You have run mke2fs on

Re: [ilugd] ext3 file format

2006-01-17 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nitin == Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nitin Hello, I am ready to shed my pockets for my emails, but i Nitin want someone real expert who can do it. Is anyone of you Nitin know a real linux recovery expert? Also, how much will he