I'm working with that now. I appreciate everyone's input. I've never dealt with a fs issue like this before and if I lose the data then its a lesson learned. However it is a good exercise for any future issues if they god forbid happen.
On 2/25/09, Dan Young <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:41 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: >> In a punch drunk state I rm -rf'd a directory that I didn't intend to. >> I wasn't unable to immediately unmount the filesystem but was able to >> make a complete image of it to a backup device. The fs is ext3 and >> google led me to debugfs and I was able to see the deleted directory >> and associated inode. It has yet to be deleted as undel inode# said it >> was still allocated. My question is. How do I relink the inode to >> userland so I can grab the directory and back it up properly :) > > I've had good results with ext3grep: > > http://code.google.com/p/ext3grep/ > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html > > ext3grep $IMAGE --dump-names > and > ext3grep $IMAGE --restore-file path/to/your/file > were particularly helpful. > > -- > Dan Young > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
