Rich Braun wrote: > There are a handful of well-documented utilities available for recovering ext3 > volumes, and pretty much nothing for ext4. The ones that claim support for > ext4 give no meaningful debugging output, and rely solely on contents of a > journal that's apparently gone.
You tried 'foremost' or one of the other tools listed here? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Extract_individual_files_from_recovered_image These tools are designed to sift through unallocated space on a drive and recognize common file structures (headers). They shouldn't care about the presence of a journal file. That the tools you are trying do, makes me wonder if you are chasing after the wrong type of solution. I would expect journal files to only be useful if the data on your disk is inconsistent with what is in your directory structures. In this case, you accidentally performed a delete operation, which fully completed and was synced to disk. The disk itself should be self-consistent. Are the tools you are trying claim to use the journal to find where recently deleted files were stored? I could see that being a useful shortcut, but they'll eventually get flushed from the journal and then you'll need a different strategy. Perhaps they figure your deleted files will be overwritten by then. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss