From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Partap Subject: recover file reset to 0 size? Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:54:07 +0100 Message-ID: <476414BF.9090403@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47483 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752275AbXLORyK (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:54:10 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dear ext4 developers, I have a small problem here on a partition mounted as ext4dev and thought there might be a slight chance you can help me out. I recorded a movie from UDP DVB stream into a file with VLC.. then at some point after I switched the channel and made VLC reconnect, but forgot it was in dump stream mode. I instantly killed the darn thing and looked at the file but it was too late, 0 Bytes. So from what I understand about this extents stuff, the first inode had its extents reset from 18Gig to 0. If so, is there a way I could probably undo that? The file should be completly unfragmented as there was more than 100Gig left and I had no other writes to that partition at that time.. It was a rare movie and there is no scheduled repetition so I would be thankful if someone had an idea. regards, marcel