get back deleted file

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 18:25:44 UTC 2006


On 10/5/06, Jacques B. <jjrboucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/06, yogesh at banasdairy.coop <yogesh at banasdairy.coop> wrote:
> > i try but in user home directory folder i not get .trash/.Trash file
> >
> >
> > i delete one file and i want to get it back can it possible
> > i sure that i not delete it permenantly
> >
> > so if any idea with out trash than share with me
> >
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> If you have ext3fs, I found the following which supports my suggestion
> to grep the hard drive for a string in the file.
>
> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html
>
> 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.
>
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Jacques,

Would it be okay if I compile the information you have posted here
onto my website (www.pembo13.com)?

If so, please let me know how much credit you would like: ie: none,
name, name+email, name+email+website, etc.

Thank you.

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