[NTLUG:Discuss] ext3 undelete! WHOO HOO!

[David Stanaway]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> ...
>   
>> Reiser fans can --rebuild-tree and dredge the lost+found directory for 
>> their files... see 
>> http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments
>>
>>     
>
> I actually used that technique a couple of years ago or so... an engineer
> found this large file ending in .vmdk and decided to free up some
> space :)
>
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>   


If the file was open, a link would have been held and its contents 
wouldn't be re-used, but if he had deleted the file since the file 
system was nearly full and the file is not open, you would have had to 
jump on it pretty fast.