Perhaps it was sheer luck -- I used e2undelete on a set of 6 files on an ext3 partition, and one was completely recovered, while two were partially recovered (as I said, unreliable).
also, look here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:16 PM, sid <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the filesystems are 'sync'ed before unmounting. Also if you > read the ext3 specifications, some random blocks are written to the > disk where the file was written. Therefore there is very little hope > in getting the file back. > > sid > > On Dec 29 2008, 6:45 pm, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've had success (though unreliable), with the e2undelete tool. The key > is > > to make sure you unmount the drive IMMEDIATELY to avoid overwriting the > > file. > > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:16 AM, naveen shankar > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > How to recover a file which was deleted, in ext3 fs? > > > > > --Naveen > > > > -- > > > > Daniel > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
