Hi David, I dablled in this once before. I would recomend you go for a Live CD, although you don't need (as the disk isn't monted for system use. I think you'll find that as they tend to prepackaged for this kind of thing, they might just be easier to use. Also saves stuffing around with non-repository software, which is touch and go if your not a developer. I can't remember which it was but I used either: System Rescue CD The Ultimate Boot disk My copies were/are a few years old now, but one of the two i found was able to resurect scarily large amounts of supposedly deleted files. I think that is/was their actual names. Both free, both based on a combination of linux, free BSD and FreeDOS.
Good Luck! Jon On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:14:57 pm david wrote: > Long story, but I have a photo that has been removed (rm file.jpg) on an > ext3 filesystem, Ubuntu 8.10 > > The hard drive is NOT the root drive and it has been unmounted and > remounted read only - <# mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mountpoint>. > Nothing was written on the drive as far as I know before unmounting. > > The obvious question: how to attempt recovery? I've stumbled on a thing > called ext3undel but it's not in the Ubuntu repositories, which made me > suspicious. > > There are lots of google comments saying "can't be done". > > What are my chances? any suggestions? Would be nice to have some success > stories before I try the wrong thing and mess things up. > > thanks > > David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
