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Hi Everyone

Would anyone of you guys know about good way to recover deleted files on Ubuntu 7.10?

Thanks =)

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

If deleted files were on an ext3 partition and you can't find them in Trash you're in trouble :(

Q: How can I recover (undelete) deleted files from my ext3 partition?
Actually, you can't! This is what one of the developers, Andreas Dilger, said about it:
In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a crash, it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks the inode as "deleted" and leaves the block pointers alone. Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been deleted and hope for the best.
(http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html)

For more information go to:
Recovering deleted files on an ext3 filesystem - http://ubuntumagnet.com/2007/09/recovering-deleted-files-ext3-filesystem
Why Recovering a Deleted Ext3 File Is Difficult - http://linux.sys-con.com/read/117909.htm

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