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

[Dan Linder]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:19, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> ext3 is really hard to recover files from sadly. The best thing to do
> is not to write *anything* to that drive for the time being.
>
> The last time I looked, this was the best solution:
>
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
>


Thanks for the pointers (Ben, TJ, and Jordan)...

Sadly my files are only a few home-made scripts so I don't have a good
template for them to use, and since they are so small I doubt there's much
these can do.

I did see that it's a "feature" of ext3 that it over-writes the first few
sectors of a file after deletion.  (
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html)

Sadly, I was moving files from my backup system (after freshly reformatting
my desktop) when I accidentally deleted a full directory instead of just a
file.  Didn't notice it until rsync had finished and _both_copies were now
gone. :-(

Live and learn I guess. :-)

Dan

Maybe I'll use "dd if=/dev/sda6 | strings | less" and search for some key
comments in the code that I do remember... :-/

-- 
***************** ************* *********** ******* ***** *** **
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
   (Who can watch the watchmen?)
   -- from the Satires of Juvenal
"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them."
   -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
** *** ***** ******* *********** ************* *****************