Bug#470813: ITP: ext3grep -- Tool to facilitate and automate deleted file recovery from an ext3 filesystem.
> ext3grep is a simple tool intended to aid anyone who accidentally deletes a
> file on an ext3 filesystem, only to find that they wanted it shortly
> thereafter.
How does it relate to the recover package:
Package: recover
Version: 1.3c-11
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Luca Bruno <luca.br@uno.it>
Description: Undelete files on ext2 partitions
Recover automates some steps as described in the ext2-undeletion howto. This means it seeks all the deleted
inodes on your hard drive with debugfs. When all the inodes are indexed, recover asks you some questions
about the deleted file. These questions are:
* Hard disk device name
* Year of deletion
* Month of deletion
* Weekday of deletion
* First/Last possible day of month
* Min/Max possible file size
* Min/Max possible deletion hour
* Min/Max possible deletion minute
* User ID of the deleted file
* A text string the file included (can be ignored)
If recover found any fitting inodes, it asks to give a directory name and dumps the inodes into the
directory. Finally it asks you if you want to filter the inodes again (in case you typed some wrong
answers).
Note that recover works only with ext2 filesystems - it does not support ext3.
http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/recover/
I would suspect it is better to have one tool capable of handling both
ext2 and ext3, instead of two tools.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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