Re: Lost all my project data, file recovery tool? Urgent!
Hi Matthias!
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >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).
> >
>
> Okay, at least I didn't install anything since this happened.
> But there is another problem:
> This partition contains the data from /usr/share and /home and when I
> try to unmount it: Error (device is busy).
init 1
mount -o ro,remount /usr
mount -o ro,remount /home
dd if=/dev/<whatever has the partition> of=/<somewherelese>/dump-of-lost-data.bin bs=1M
remount the stuff rw again,
^D to go back to your usual runlevel.
Then, after that, you can copy that dump to another file and loop-mount it
to do as you please, without futher losing data.
--
"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
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