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On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:13:02 +0000, Jan wrote:

> > I fallowed suggestions of "list" to recover deleted files using  debugfs 
> > and 'mc' tool,but those are working for ext2 file system only.
> > And in info pages i read this statement:"Recovery of deleted files is 
> > only available on ext2 file systems".
> > Is it not possible to recover ext3fs ?  is there any chance still left?
> > 
> > Otherwise i will forget this topic as 'nate' suggested.
> > 
> ext3 is just ext2 with a journaling feature. You should be able to
> simply use an ext3 filesystem as if it were an ext2; as far as I know it
> is even possible to mount an ext3 disk as ext2, if you don't want the
> journaling.

While that is true, ext3 is not compatible with ext2 with regard to
recovering deleted files. File deletion on ext3 works differently,
and you will fail to recover the files when you treat the partition
as ext2.

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