Sometime on Feb 3, Kingsly John assembled some asciibets to say:

>  |If they say no, you could get a program called explore2fs - a windows
>  |program much like win explorer.  This is alpha software however.
>
> Word of advice... *never* use this program to write into a ext2 file
> system it'll totally fsck your filesytem... editing one file will
> ruin almost all files in the directory... I used it once to edit

That happened with older versions where it was mentioned - writing
support experimental, use at your own risk.  I did, and lost my entire
home directory.  Ran an fsck, got everything back in lost+found.  Yes, I
got absolutely everything back.  Not a byte lost.  Only thing, I had to
figure out the file names.  Files that were inside directories had their
original names.

It wasn't hard.  Ran file on each of the files to figure out their
types, and then looked at the contents using relevant viewers to figure
out the names.

You can search ilug-bom archives for more details -
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/search/linuxers/

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