[olug] *sigh* Need a Linux / ext3 unerase tool...

[Obi-Wan]

> In cleaning up a filesystem on an external HDD I accidentally removed a
> directory I wanted to keep.
> 
> Anyone have any recommendations on a utility to un-erase a directory or
> file?

I went through this a while back, and I seem to recall finding that
such a beast *couldn't* exist due to the way ext3 does journalling.

That's what backups are for.

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