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eco2geek - 03.10.2006, 07:50 Uhr
Titel: Any way to undelete files from an ext3 filesystem?

Adding "delete" to Konqueror's context menu finally bit me in the butt. It wasn't a terribly important directory, but it was one I wanted to keep. So no more of that...

Is there any way to undelete individual files/directories from an ext3-based filesystem? According to e2undel's web page, you can't:

Zitat:

In general, ext2 and ext3 are compatible file systems: You can mount an ext3 fs as ext2 and even use the ext2 low level utilities like debugfs. However, ext3 behaves in a different manner in one crucial point: If a file is deleted, its inode data are removed, too. Especially, the list of data blocks is lost; so it is not possible to recover any deleted file.

Is this true?

Swynndla - 03.10.2006, 10:26 Uhr
Titel: RE: Any way to undelete files from an ext3 filesystem?

Unmount your partition straight away, and then look at:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/420
and take particulare note of step 5 (Run PhotoRec)
... says it supports ext2 and ext3
... I haven't tried it though.

slh - 03.10.2006, 10:33 Uhr
Titel: RE: Any way to undelete files from an ext3 filesystem?

And always work on partition images for rescue work, but chances aren't that good.