[NTLUG:Discuss] Ok, I give. Is there ANY way to undelete a file in ext3?

[Will Senn]

Jerry,

If this information is correct, it's bad news. Taken from the EXT 3 FAQ 
at http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html:
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Q: How can I recover (undelete) deleted files from my ext3 partition?
Actually, you can't! This is what one of the developers, Andreas Dilger, 
said about it:

In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a crash, 
it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas
ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks 
the inode as "deleted" and leaves the block pointers alone.

Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been 
deleted and hope for the best.
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Thanks,

Will


Jerry Brillowski - LNX Technologies wrote:

> Thanks in advance for any clues.
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> - Jerry Brillowski
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