On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:22:25PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> dogdamn who would use ext3 huh? 
> in ext2 you delete a file and the inode info is kept intact.

you can revert the ext3 back to ext2, see line 240 of man tune2fs.

- umount the /dev/hdb1 partition.
- 'tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdb1'   (the caret negates the feature)
- e2fsck -y /dev/hdb1
- remount hdb1 and change to the root level of that partition.
- 'remove -f .journal'   (delete the jornal file in hdb1)
 
use mc's command-undelete ext2 tool or the 'debugfs /dev/hdb1' and
it's #help and #lsdel commands to do the same thing manually.  

also "undeletion howto"


hth,
keith.


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