On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:14:33PM +0800, Dudley F. Ca?as wrote: > Hi sorry for cross posting this message, but our friend Marvin, I > think is in trouble :). His question is that, if a file is accidentaly > delete does this mean goodbye or is there another way we can recover > those deleted files.
I've heard of the ext2 undelete tools[1], but have never actually used them. [1] http://amadeus.ece.uprm.edu/~undelete/ > I thinks help is much needed heheheehe! Unfortunately I don't think any of our help will be of much use ... > BTW he's using MANDRAKE 8.2 on ext3f ... because Stephen Tweedie himself says: There is no automatable way. Your best chance is probably to use a disk editor to search for the freed disk blocks containing the data. and Theodore Ts'o later ends(?) the thread with: Midnight's undelete has the same limitations as debugfs, since it's using the same approach. The real problem is that ext3 isn't saving the block numbers in the inode after the inode is deleted, which means that the debugfs and midnight commander undelete schemes can't work. If you use e2image to save snapshots of the filesystem metadata, you can use that to recover from deleted files that existed before the e2image metadata snapshot was taken. The real answer though is to keep regular backups of your data.... Feel free to read this entire thread[2] (June 2002) from the ext3-users mailing list. [2] https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ext3-users/2002-June/003616.html The best of luck. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
