Reply to message «Re: Restore file from undo», 
sent 23:17:12 31 May 2011, Tuesday
by Christian Brabandt:

> Hm, if I remember correctly, the inodes are zeroed out, when a file is
> deleted for ext3 and ext4. That's why extundelete only works correctly
> with ext2.
According to description of sys-fs/extundelete package it works only for ext3 
and ext4, not for ext2 filesystem. I don't know anything about zeroing inodes 
and I use neither extundelete nor ext* filesystems.

Original message:
> Hi ZyX!
> 
> On Di, 31 Mai 2011, ZyX wrote:
> > There are additional options: for ext* filesystems you may use
> > extundelete application and for every filesystem you may open its
> > device as a file and search for parts of the text you still remember.
> > Before doing the latter, ask somebody for application that is able to
> > do the job, Vim is not a good option for this. I once did something
> > similar with grep.
> 
> Hm, if I remember correctly, the inodes are zeroed out, when a file is
> deleted for ext3 and ext4. That's why extundelete only works correctly
> with ext2.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Christian

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