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On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:14:45 +0200, KH wrote: |
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> > The data is still there, mke2fs just reset the superblock. Photorec |
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> > will recover file contents from a filesystem like this. It only |
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> > recovers the contents, not the metadata, so you'll end up with files |
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> > with meaningless names, but as they are video files I suspect there |
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> > are not too many of them and they are fairly easy to identify. At |
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> > least it's less work than importing and editing them all again. |
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> It will also find files you already deleted. I had this with an SD Card |
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> once and it is a lot of work to go throu all the files and see what it |
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> is. |
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Of course it will, since that is what it does, find deleted files. |
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Whether their directory entries were deleted with rm or mke2fs is |
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irrelevant because photorec looks for chains of blocks on the disk. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. |
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