[plug] deleted home directory files

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 11:24, Milan Pospisil wrote:
> Hi Folks;
>             I have accidentally deleted some files from my home
> directory (right button click  and Delete). Is there a way of
> retrieving it or is it lost forever?  Any advise would be appreciated.
>                    TIA
>                          MP
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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.