Re: recover ext3 deletion
Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current
directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have
seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +0000, Harvey Kelly wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Oh my. I cannot believe what I did.
>>
>> # rm -rf *
>>
>> Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy.
>>
>> I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable
>> (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I
>> run as root:
>> recover -a
>>
>> Scanning devices...
>> Ext2 devices:
>> recover: No valid standard devices found; are you a privileged user?
>>
>> If your device is not listed, you can still use it
>> Please enter the partition's device name
>>
>> <To which I enter /dev/hda7>
>>
>> Getting inodes (this can take some time)...
>> debugfs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
>> Terminated
>>
>> And I'm back at the prompt, with nothing recovered as I can tell.
>> Please, where am I going wrong? In addition to losing everything (no
>> back-ups, I know, I know), a 3,000 word essay due in Monday has been
>> lost.
>
> As far as I am aware debugfs can cope with an ext3 filesystem so see if
> this helps.
>
> As root type debugfs /dev/hdb7 at the prompt. You should see something
> like this.
>
> debugfs 1.30-WIP (30-Sep-2002)
> debugfs:
>
> Now enter lsdel for a list of deleted inodes, file sizes and deletion
> times. The output is piped through a pager. You will have to use file
> size and deletion time as a guide to which file you want to recover.
>
> The final step is
>
> debugfs: dump <inode number> /tmp/foo.txt
>
> Note the angle brackets.
>
> Ideally you should have unmounted the partition immediately so that
> nothing has been written to it.
>
> Brian.
>
>
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