Re: Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 22:34 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:14:47PM -0400, To Ro wrote:
> > I started testing one of the recovered files, with a binary file editor can
> > se a long sequence of zeros at the very beginning of it, took some
> > precautions, and here is what I see
> >
> > ls -lh
> > total 5.8G
> > -r-------- 1 xyz xyz 5.8G Jun 14 17:52 inode_17000
> >
> > tried gunzip, djview, tar -x, mplayer, etc, thinking of the possible files
> > that I had of that size. Nothing comes up. By the way, did bcrypt disappear
> > from wheezy?
> >
> > Any ideas what else could be done?
>
> Just an idea, but what does
> "file inode_17000" say?
I experienced recovering ext4 files as nearly impossible, some can be
recovered, but most is lost when trying to recover it with tools doing
it automatically, however, IIRC _all_ (at least most) tools provide an
option to recover lost directories and files as directories and files in
a human readable way. Take a look at
THE_COMMAND_YOU_USE --help
or
man THE_COMMAND_YOU_USE
;).
Hth,
Ralf
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