Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-05 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I > couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. I had > already looked at Midnight commander but your additions were helpful as I > only saw the in

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-04 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Potkin) writes: > > > The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible > > only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it > > would deal with ext3 is reasonable but

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-03 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Potkin) writes: > The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible > only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it > would deal with ext3 is reasonable but doesn't mc use debugfs which is > designed for an ext2 file system? >

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cheryl Homiak) writes: > Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I > couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. > Maybe you could still save some fragments of the file? or if you are *really* lucky, the relvant inodes still have

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:38:05PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:42:36PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > > I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system, > > just destroyed some important records I was keeping. > > > *Immediately* unmount the part

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-02 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > [snip] As > for backups, I'm really sorry but i can't figure out what a MO disk is. I think this is tech speak for a magneto-optical disk, which is a rare beast that I've

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. I had already looked at Midnight commander but your additions were helpful as I only saw the information about undeleting from the command line. The information wasn'

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, March 1, Jeff did write: > Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > > > > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user > account on my laptop. > > However, how would I delete from the T

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > > > > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user > account on my laptop. > > However, how would I delete from the Trash

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:12:51AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > > > > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user > account on my laptop. > > However, how would I dele

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:42:36PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system, > just destroyed some important records I was keeping. > *Immediately* unmount the partition holding this data! With "*immediately*" i mean *IMMEDIATELY!*, or b

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Jeff
Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: > > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' > This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user account on my laptop. However, how would I delete from the Trashcan, save removing the alias temporarily? thanks, jc

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Ulf Rompe
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? I'm not shure if this works but I would give the normale "recover" for ext2 a try. Before using it you should umount the partition. And in the meantime you should use the partition read-only to get a chance that the

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dumb question/comment... since ext3 is just ext2 w/ journalling... - can you just unplay the journal ??? :-) otherwise to undelete ext2 files... and if you did undelete it successfullye... i donno what happens to your journaled fs http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Txt/erase.txt

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Vector
ish I could give you more detail but I did this around 4 years ago and haven't really needed to do much like it since. vec - Original Message - From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, March 0

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system, > just destroyed some important records I was keeping. > Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? Ouch, no idea. > And if there is a way, but you had to have it pre-set up bef

Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system, just destroyed some important records I was keeping. Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? And if there is a way, but you had to have it pre-set up before the catastrophe occurred, I'd still like to know about it so I will ha