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Re: recover ext3 deletion



Nope.  I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but
not for long - got to get on with it haven't I?  Price of an education
and all that.

Thanks anyway,

Harvey

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:27:58AM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> 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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