To Ro wrote: > After a few hours, my Big.tar.gz was gone. I tried testdisk, but has not > been very succesful. I was able to see and copy to another disk about 18 > files of different sizes, from 6 gb to 70 gb, with names such as inode_xxxxx > Running the command "file inode_xxxxx" yields not much, it says data file. > The process of copying by testdisk had to be halted because the target disk > was full, and testdisk hung for several hours (night time) before I stopped > the whole thing. > What should I do? What filesystem are you using? Because if it is ext3 then things look pretty grim. See this reference: http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html Q: How can I recover (undelete) deleted files from my ext3 partition? Actually, you can't! This is what one of the developers, Andreas Dilger, said about it: In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a crash, it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks the inode as "deleted" and leaves the block pointers alone. Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been deleted and hope for the best. Otherwise everything I know about recovering deleted files is here: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#I-used-rm-to-remove-a-file_002e-How-can-I-get-it-back-now_003f It is a pretty pessimistic view. I hope others have more optimistic information for you. Good luck! Bob
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