Re: Data recovery experiences

[Shanker <shanu@xxxxxxxx>]

Vimal Mathew wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>     I accidentally deleted some files last weekend from one of my
> data partitions. I immediately unmounted that partition, and
> remembering an ext2 recovery package I had stored on that partn.,
> remounted it read-only, copied it away and again unmounted it. I compiled it
> and went through the documents. With just three commands at the
> shell-prompt, this
> package had recovered about 1000 and odd files from that partition.
> I was literally stunned. Going through the recovered files(in /tmp),
> I found all the files I had recently deleted to be in perfect shape( some 30
> files including ELF binaries and TGZ packages). You should try out the
> package

	MC too has an undelete option. U can even grep the deleted files.

>   <http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/e2recover-1.0.tar.gz>
> I am more careful now : I did a chattr +i on all my important files
> and am trying to spend less time as root on my desktop. I guess one
> learns only from disasters. I was lucky this time.

	I  havent tried e2recover. But MC does the job quite well. Give it a
try.
> Bye,
> Vimal

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  Shanker Balan                                Debian/GNU Linux 2.1
  St. Alberts College
  Cochin  India

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