How to recovery deleted files?

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:42 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Vinicius wrote:
> > but from http://www.stellarinfo.com/linux-data-recovery.htm :
> > 
> > "Key Features
> > 
> >     ...
> >     ...
> >     * Provides recovery of deleted file(s) for *Ext2 File system only*.
> >     ..."
> 
> Ext3 filesystems *are* ext2 filesystems (with some extra features). And
> the design of both ext2 and ext3 is such that drivers and tools for ext2
> will ignore the extra features.

Mostly, but not in the case of recovering deleted files because one of
the things ext3 does on top of ext2 is to zero out some of the metadata
when deleting files in order to be able to process the journal correctly
when recovering from a crash. This metadata is used by the ext2
undeletion utilities and hence they don't work in ext3.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>