[plug] On the subject of undelete

[Trent Lloyd]

It could also be a "sessioned" thing
some cd buurning software will restore a session
not sure if any *nix stuff   does tho

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:56:26AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >I have seemed to have wiped the contents of my re-writable CD, in a 
> >moment of
> >madness, does anyone know of a method I can restore it?  The medium 
> >will not
> >mount not even via the shell?
> 
> Well, if you did a full wipe the data is just /gone/. If you did a 
> "quick wipe" the data is still present on the CD but the ToC information 
> etc has been wiped. Unfortunately, I don't think CD-ROMs will read from 
> CDs w/o that info - I guess its possible to 'dd if=/dev/cdrom 
> of=/tmp/cddump' and see but I'd expect it to fail with an I/O error.
> 
> In other words CDs are even less friendly to data recovery than HDDs, at 
> least AFAIK.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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