Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Re: Restore file from undo

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

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