[plug] recovering deleted files

[Richard Meyer]

                      "Anthony J.                                                                                                   
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>On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Mike Hasleby wrote:

>> One of our staff members has accidently deleted a file he has been
>> working on all day (using Excel) that is stored on our staff file server

>> on an ext2 filesystem
>> Is it possible to undelete this.  I remember reading some emails on
>> something similar on plug about 2 years ago

>No.

>If it's _really_ important you can

>dowm the server (speed is an issue)
>up it in single user mode
>unmount the FS (if it's mounted)
>grep the device for some token in the data.
>dd a chunk at the appropriate offest.
>_try_ to build a valid excel file out of it.


>Yours Tony

IIRC there was a similar thread on another LUG list that I was subscribed
to, and the answer was that Midnight Commander could undelete files.
Whether it needed a plug-in of some description, I just can't remember - it
was about two years ago.

Hope this helps.

RichardM