On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:17:04PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > I was viewing a large html file in an html editor, and edited out 90% > of it's content, and meant to save it to a separate file. However, I > accidentally saved it to the same location as the larger file. The file > was opened from, and saved to an ext3 partition. Is there a way to > recover the old, larger file? > > Debugfs, lsdel only shows deleted inodes as recent as Aug. 2nd, so I > know it's not showing the file. > > I still have a copy of the original file open in an html viewer (Opera), > but it tries to read the saved copy, whenever you tell it to save it to > a different location, or even a simple "view source". > > I know I can cut and paste the file, using my mouse, but then it > doesn't copy the html tags. > > (This file isn't anything mission critical, so it really is ok if it > gets lost, I just thought I'd use it as practice run, should I ever > need to recover something important.) Here is a mini-HOWTO on undeleting Ext2fs files. I am not sure how it needs to be modified, if at all, for ext3. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html -- Jerome
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