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

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam@digitalraid.com>]

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).
>
> What now?

Thanks Jesus, I grep'ed the raw data from the partition and matched 
against certain code phrases, so I was at least able to recover some of 
the most important files which I was working on in the last couple of 
months.

I had dumped my old projects anyway, so whatever... 8)

Sorry for the noise.

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Matthias Kaeppler