Hi Dene: I became very interested in your problem because of past work I was involved in. However, I did some research for you which, I hope, you discover to be useful as I found informative and provocative.
This link is probably below your level but it does provide a nice explanation of the ext3 format: http://linux.sys-con.com/node/117909?page=0,0 As a strategy leading to a solution you may be more interested in the following article which references a link to tools, both of which abide by various incarnations of the open source concept: 1. The Sleuth Kit - a set of forensic quality analytical tools. 2. Foremost - developed by US Air Force Office of Special Investigations The link to that discussion which introduces these tools is located here: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1902/1 All the best... On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:46:56 +0100 Dene Stringfellow <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone please help? A user has just inadvertently deleted a folder > of work from an SMB share stored on an ext3 partition on a YDL 3.0 > system running on an Apple G3 B&W tower. I have just unmounted the > partition with a view to remounting the partition as readonly in an > effort to try to recover the data, as I found the overnight backup > failed last night! > > However when I try any of the following mount commands: > > mount -o ro,remount /home/Lnx_CAD2 > > mount -o remount,ro /home/Lnx_CAD2 > > mount -t ext3 -o remount,ro /dev/sdb5 /home/Lnx_CAD2 > > mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdb5 > > mount -o remount,ro -t ext3 /dev/sdb5 /home/Lnx_CAD2 > > I get the following error: > > mount: /home/Lnx_CAD2 not mounted already, or bad option > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards > > Dene
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