Re: Undelete files on ext3 ??

Andreas Dilger
2003-01-07T17:44:54Z

On Jan 07, 2003 11:38 -0600, Max Valdez wrote:
> I think there must be some other differences between ext2 and ext3, I've
> tryed e2undel and unrm, both made for ext2, and none of them found any
> deleted inode.

Yes, in order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a
crash, it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas
ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks
the inode as "deleted" and leaves the block pointers alone.

Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been deleted
and hope for the best.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger