[olug] *sigh* Need a Linux / ext3 unerase tool...

[Kevin]

Via UserFriendly's Link of the Day: Something techie: An ext3 undelete
tool! http://www.giis.co.in/

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 14:34, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:37, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'll use "dd if=/dev/sda6 | strings | less" and search for some key
>> comments in the code that I do remember...
>>
>
> Just a quick update on my "rm" failure...
>
> 1: EXT3 filesystem does automatically overwrite the first sector or two of a
> file.  Apparently this is part of the EXT3 spec.
>
> 2: I ended up using the "dd if=/dev/sda6 | strings | less" command and
> copy-and-paste the small shell scripts I was looking for.  The only drawback
> to this is that "less" tries to buffer everything, and I couldn't determine
> a way to tell it to only save the last 2MB of the buffer.  I ended up having
> to do some more steps to narrow down the region of the disk...
>
> Sadly in my case the scripts I was looking at were pretty small, so I didn't
> get back my latest revisions due to the "overwrite first sector" feature.
> Oh well, live and learn to make better backups...
>
> Dan
>
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