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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: UZAIR LAKHANI <uzairr_bs1b@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How To Recover Files From ext3 Partition??
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:38:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060504143814.GF16570@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060504141838.52335.qmail@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:18:38AM -0700, UZAIR LAKHANI wrote:
> Is there any way to recover the deleted files from a
> folder in ext3 partition. Basically in one directory,
> I gave the command (rm -rf *) and all the files and
> folders of this directory are lost. How to recover
> these. I had once found an article regarding
> un-deleting ext2 files.

It *should* work the same, though the the last time I tried such a
recovery from and ext3 filesystem, ext3 made it particularly hard cause
it zeros most of the inode on delete (including ext3_inode->i_block[]).
Ext2 leaves much more information behind.

You could try with the undelfs feature in Midnight Commander, but first
be sure to mount the filesystem read-only in order to avoid any further
changes.


Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-04 14:18 How To Recover Files From ext3 Partition?? UZAIR LAKHANI
2006-05-04 14:38 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2006-05-05  5:16   ` UZAIR LAKHANI
2006-05-05 11:18     ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-05 16:41       ` Andreas Dilger
2006-05-08 10:51         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-05-08 12:34           ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-08 12:42             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-05-08 17:41               ` Andreas Dilger
2006-05-08 13:20           ` Theodore Tso

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