On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Philip S Tellis wrote: |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
Didn't know it was still being maintained.. anyways I hardly use windows so it's something I can live without. |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. Yes I got all the files back too.. but for a newbie it'll be a nightmare to pick up the stuff from lost+found and put them in the right place. But since it was my /etc that got messed up I couldn't boot into the machine and had to boot from either a cdrom or an another linux install.(don't remember) Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
