Re: Help! I need to undelete files on EXT3

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:38:08PM +0200, Yves Crespin wrote:
> I have found in debugfs the following command : ls -d which list deleted
> entries
> deleted entries inode :
> <inode> (???) filename
> 
> how can I link those inode to a new filename?

"modify_inode <nr>" will let you set the i_nlink to 1 and the dtime to
zero, then fsck will find the inode and place it into /lost+found.

> how can I know with block are used by those inodes?

That's the problem --- you can't.  It does not use any blocks.

> do ext3 use contigues block?

It tries to but there is no guarantee.

--Stephen