Re: Lost all my project data, file recovery tool? Urgent!

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> Now, before I start sending hate mails to the author/packager, is there 
> any way to recover deleted data from en ext3 filesystem?

First things first: mount it readonly immediately (or leave it unmounted).
Image it using dd to a file, and store that away somewhere safe (such as in
a DVD media).

I will let people with more experience in data recovery tell you how to
salvage ext3 inodes (I only did it to ext2 so far).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh