There is also another way of undeleting a file, which I completely forgot about before. ext3 stores the file in journals which are maintained in memory. If you haven't rebooted the system, you can still get the file back.
try this link http://www.giis.co.in/ext3_recovery_part1.html On Jan 1, 10:24 am, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps it was sheer luck -- I used e2undelete on a set of 6 files on an > ext3 partition, and one was completely recovered, while two were partially > recovered (as I said, unreliable). > > also, look here:http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html > > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:16 PM, sid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think the filesystems are 'sync'ed before unmounting. Also if you > > read the ext3 specifications, some random blocks are written to the > > disk where the file was written. Therefore there is very little hope > > in getting the file back. > > > sid > > > On Dec 29 2008, 6:45 pm, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've had success (though unreliable), with the e2undelete tool. The key > > is > > > to make sure you unmount the drive IMMEDIATELY to avoid overwriting the > > > file. > > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:16 AM, naveen shankar > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > How to recover a file which was deleted, in ext3 fs? > > > > > --Naveen > > > > -- > > > > Daniel > > -- > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
