file recovery program?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Mar 6 17:12:01 UTC 2007


On Sun,  4 Mar 2007 17:45:45 -0800
Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been given a Ubuntu disk that has had some files erased. Immediately after
> erasing them the drive was pulled and stored. I propose to mount it under FC6
> and try to recover files. I have the file names. Any pointers? programs? reading?

debuge2fs

Chances are you won't get anything back, although you might if you pulled
the disk within 5 seconds or so. Make sure you don't mount the disk ext3
but ext2 and you keep it read only (or copy the disk to a large file),
otherwise the ext3 log replay will finish the work ...




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