-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Nitin" == Nitin Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nitin> Hello, I am ready to shed my pockets for my emails, but i Nitin> want someone real expert who can do it. Is anyone of you Nitin> know a real linux recovery expert? Also, how much will he Nitin> charge?? Nitin> I am thinking to visit nehru palace tomorrow and see, Nitin> anyone there might be able to do something. Any ideas, will Nitin> it beneficial or not? Nitin> Regarding usage of commands, yeah i know i made the boo Nitin> boo. :( If your partition was /dev/hda3, use: grep --binary-files=text -b 'Some string you remember from your mailbox' /dev/hda3 This /should/ find your mailbox on the disk if the data still exists. Then you'll need to play games with dd (skip=foo count=bar) to extract the nearby blocks from the partition onto a file on another partition. I've done this once when someone trashed my disk. No substitute for backing up, though. BACKUP REGULARLY. BACKUP REGULARLY. BACKUP REGULARLY. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFDzbQFyWjQ78xo0X8RAp9gAKCORiKorSwwenzAa1JGj8XJBb31JQCeLFUT pfUW/cJ86wHq69CkIwa1TJE= =79Jq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/