Re: Undeleting a whole reiserfs partition

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

zephod (by way of zephod ) wrote:

>>Yesterday, by error, a 'rm -fr' slipped through to my /music partition,
>>a 20GB reiserfs which was at arounf 85% full. SInce then no other
>>activity took place on it. Is there any easy way to recover my files?
>>
>>In the docs, it says you cannot undelete files in reiserfs partitions,
>>since what you delete is most probable overwritten by the next comitted
>>data. 
>>
Where does it say that?  It needs correcting.....

>>In my case, there has been no additional modification of the
>>partition, though.
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>Today I did exactly the same thing (on a 3.9 GB partition though). I could
>have killed myself for doing it!
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>I first backed up the partition just to be safe:
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>   dd if=/dev/hdsomething of=backupfie
>   losetup /dev/loop5 backupfile
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>then I tried:
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>   reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --scan-whole-partition /dev/loop5
>   mount /dev/loop5 <mountpoint>
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>and what do you know! All my deleted stuff reappeared. As we speak I am
>restoring now the original partition.
>
>I guess this only worked because immediatly unmounted the partition after my
>unfortunate error to prevent writing new nodes and data.
>
>Also: Making backups of your data is never wasted time nor a waste of CD's
> and it is better for your nervous system too (I think this cost me another
> year of my life ;) )
>
>Hope this works out for you,
>
>Z.
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Hans