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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:01:25 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote |
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> Uwe Thiem writes: |
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> > On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> > > > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) |
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> > > > pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted |
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> > > > ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in |
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> > > > the meantime. |
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> > > > However, by the time you are done it is usually not worth the |
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> > > > effort it took. It's easier to reinstall and restore backups. But |
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> > > > if there are some irreplaceable files on that disk, you have no |
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> > > > choice. good luck to him. |
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> > > There's a home directory ... . |
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> > What do you mean, Pat? /home still exists and is populated? |
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> I think he means there _was_ a /home directory. |
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> I'd mout ro, and backup all files that are still there. photorec will find lots of files, but only as single files, without the directory structure. See <http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec> for a list of supported file types. |
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> There are undelete tools for ext2, but I heard they should not work with ext3, because it zeros out things instead of just marking them as deleted as it was in ext2. However, I also heard that someone had success with midnight commander, which has an undelete feature (F9, Commands menu). |
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> I did not try it, but this tool sounds promising: |
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> http://freshmeat.net/projects/giis |
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> giis (gET iT i sAY) is a file recovery tool for Ext2/Ext3 filesystems. Once installed, current files and newly created files can be recovered. It allows users to recover all deleted files, recover files owned by a specific user, dump data from old file locations, and recover files of a specific type, such as text or PNG. A forensic analyzer is also provided to assist users during recovery. |
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Yes, there was the home directory. |
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Thanks to all for the help. |
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Pat |