Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 21:58:37 +0200 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: ext3 file deletion |
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Pablo Donzis wrote: > Hi, > > I have just made a mess. I deleted some important files on my ext3fs. > Have you ever found a solution to undeletion issue in ext3? > I'm in a real hurry.
This is not a real solution - more of a starting point. If you have enough free space on *ANOTHER* partition, try to make a backup of the partition that contains the filesystem *before* unmounting it.
If /foo is the mount point of the ext3fs with the deleted files If /foo sits on /dev/hda5 If /bar has enough free space to hold a partition image of /dev/hda5
issue the following command:
dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/bar/image
and try to recover the data from the image. If the files are really important, you can try to e2fsck the *image file* and attack it with undeletion utilities (probably won't work) or mark all free blocks used by hand, e2fsck the image file again and pick up the mess from /lost+found.
HTH, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
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