Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Undelete files on ext3 ?? | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2003 08:59:13 +0000 (GMT) |
| |
> Is there any way to revert the stupid mistyping of "rm file *" on ext3??
There is no simple way, no.
> I hope there is a way, because I dont have a backup of some files i > mistakenly deleted
The only thing I can suggest is this:
* Do not write anything else to the partition, and immediately re-mount it read-only.
E.G.:
mount -oremount -oro /dev/hda3
* Use dd to copy the entire contents of the partition to a file on another partition.
E.G.:
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/partition_image
* Search through that file for the fragments of your lost files.
E.G.:
grep "Some text that you are looking for" /partition_image
If it is a text file that you've lost, it's possible that you might be able to recover some of it quite easily, using grep to search for the fragments. If it's anything else, you'll probably not be able to recover it, unless you have the details of the file format.
John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |