From: Michael Milligan <milli@acmeps.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Max Valdez <maxvaldez@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Undelete files on ext3 ??
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:00:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1C8350.3010804@acmeps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301070859.h078xEnI000337@darkstar.example.net>
John Bradford wrote:
>>Is there any way to revert the stupid mistyping of "rm file *" on ext3??
>
> There is no simple way, no.
>
>>I hope there is a way, because I dont have a backup of some files i
>>mistakenly deleted
>
> The only thing I can suggest is this:
>
> * Do not write anything else to the partition, and immediately
> re-mount it read-only.
>
> E.G.:
>
> mount -oremount -oro /dev/hda3
>
> * Use dd to copy the entire contents of the partition to a file on
> another partition.
>
> E.G.:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/partition_image
>
> * Search through that file for the fragments of your lost files.
>
This is where Lazarus from The Coroner's Toolkit might come in handy.
It's designed for ext2 though, not ext3, but it might work for you
nonetheless since ext3 is basically built on top of ext2.
http://www.cert.org/security-improvement/implementations/i046.03.html
Regards,
Mike
--
Michael Milligan -- Free Agent -- milli@acmeps.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-07 3:58 Undelete files on ext3 ?? Max Valdez
2003-01-07 8:59 ` Marco d'Itri
2003-01-07 8:59 ` John Bradford
2003-01-07 9:29 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-01-07 9:45 ` Jan Hudec
2003-01-07 17:38 ` Max Valdez
2003-01-07 17:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-07 17:57 ` John Bradford
2003-01-07 18:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-07 18:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-07 18:41 ` Virtual WORM device John Bradford
2003-01-07 18:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-07 18:54 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 18:24 ` Vishal Verma
2003-01-07 18:45 ` Undelete files on ext3 ?? Jesse Pollard
2003-01-07 18:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-08 5:01 ` Gerhard Mack
2003-01-08 8:00 ` Jan Hudec
2003-01-08 10:57 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 21:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-08 21:47 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 21:51 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-08 22:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-08 23:03 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 23:14 ` John Bradford
2003-01-09 9:42 ` Helge Hafting
2003-01-07 20:58 ` Mike Waychison
2003-01-09 8:27 ` Michael Knigge
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.3.95.1030107131613.3523A-100000@chaos.analogic.co m>
2003-01-07 23:51 ` Billy Rose
2003-01-07 11:30 ` John Bradford
2003-01-07 11:45 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-01-07 12:39 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-08 20:00 ` Michael Milligan [this message]
2003-01-07 9:16 ` David van Hoose
2003-01-07 19:31 ` oford
2003-01-08 11:57 ` Pavel Machek
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2003-01-07 9:58 Alexander Sandler
2003-01-08 10:03 bart
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