Re: Lost all my project data, file recovery tool? Urgent!
Matthias Kaeppler <nospam@digitalraid.com> writes:
> 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.
But please still follow up on this with the package maintainer, and
file a bug if he doesn't respond.
Deleting entire repositories without warning, even on purge, is not a
nice thing to do.
Regards, Bruno.
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