Re: Restore file from undo

Reply to message «Re: Restore file from undo»,
sent 23:17:12 31 May 2011, Tuesday
by Christian Brabandt:

> Hm, if I remember correctly, the inodes are zeroed out, when a file is
> deleted for ext3 and ext4. That's why extundelete only works correctly
> with ext2.
According to description of sys-fs/extundelete package it works only for ext3
and ext4, not for ext2 filesystem. I don't know anything about zeroing inodes
and I use neither extundelete nor ext* filesystems.

Original message:
> Hi ZyX!
>
> On Di, 31 Mai 2011, ZyX wrote:
> > There are additional options: for ext* filesystems you may use
> > extundelete application and for every filesystem you may open its
> > device as a file and search for parts of the text you still remember.
> > Before doing the latter, ask somebody for application that is able to
> > do the job, Vim is not a good option for this. I once did something
> > similar with grep.
>
> Hm, if I remember correctly, the inodes are zeroed out, when a file is
> deleted for ext3 and ext4. That's why extundelete only works correctly
> with ext2.
>
>
> regards,
> Christian