On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
On Thursday 09 October 2003 03:26 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so you could always transform the filesystem back to ext2 with > the "tune2fs" command.
Yes.
But deleted files would remain undeleted.
i wasn't suggesting that simply changing the filesystem back to ext2 would recover deleted files. i was responding to the point that a number of the file undeletion utilities work only on ext2, not ext3. so, as a first step, converting back to ext2 would at least allow someone to try those utilities.
rday
but if this conversion was anything more than just flipping a flag somewhere, in other words it actually moved data around, I would imagine the data belonging to the deleted file would get hosed. for that matter, if the systems has remained active while we've been having this discussion what are the chances that the disk sectors holding the data have already been overwritten?
-- Daniel Monjar IS Manager, Technical Services bioM�rieux, Inc. Durham, NC US
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