On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Julien Nadeau wrote:
> Ok, but the data itself was not deleted (only the filesystem); does anybody know
> any
> utility that have search capabilities for raw data on hard drives?
>
> - Julien
>
> Antoniu-George SAVU wrote:
>
> > Hi, :(
> > I'm affraid that you cannot:( Linux is not like any M$ OS...dose not have
> > a Recycle Bin or unformat option.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, CubeSoft Communications wrote:
> >
> > > I runned mke2fs accidentaly on a HD w/ important files (ext2 fs),
> > > I understand
> > > it creates a new ext3 filesystem on the target drive, but is there a way
> > > to recuperate
> > > the old filesystem?
> > >
> > > - Julien
> > >
You can view the raw data by treating the partition as a file and using
any of the file handling commands. I an not sure how much good this will
do you, but you could try somethign like strings /dev/hdb1 to see what
is there. (replace /dev/hdb1 with the real partition.) If you save
the output to a file, you can edit it to recover text files. The main
drawback is having enough hard drive space for the file. For binary
files, I don't know what to tell you. There is an e2fs editor, but
I have not used it. It might let you recover things, but it will
take a LOT of time.
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