[plug] ext3grep- undeleting files on an ext3 partition

[tim.bowden at westnet.com.au]

Thanks Jason, I'll give it a try (actually, at this point I'll give
almost anything a try, but it does look promising).

Tim Bowden

---- Original Message ----
From: uq1 at hate-tank.net (Jason)
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] ext3grep- undeleting files on an ext3 partition
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:30:09 +0900

>http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
>Used this on a memory stick that I'd accidentally deleted photos off.
>
>Worked wonders.
>
>On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:18:47PM +0900, tim.bowden at westnet.com.au
>wrote:
>> I've always been careful about using rm, but now I've come unstuck.
>
>> Yes, I ran it deliberately, thinking I was working on a copy of my
>> data.  Turns out I initially used mv, not cp when building my
>working
>> data set (contrary to my usual practice). I discovered that about
>0.5
>> seconds after I used rm * to back out of some changes I was making
>to
>> a bunch of jpg's.  Yes, I felt like an idiot.  Unfortunately I
>can't
>> go back to the original source of the images: The internal memory
>of
>> my digital camera (now deleted), so I'm forced to try and undelete.
>
>> I'm looking at ext3grep for the job, but I'm wondering if anyone
>here
>> has tried it and can report on its effectiveness?  or any
>> alternatives that have worked for anyone.  Although I believe the
>> current wisdom is that it's not possible, a desperate man will
>grasp
>> at any straw!
>> 
>> I shut down the laptop asap, and will boot with a live cd to
>recover
>> an image of the disk before I go mucking around with it, so I know
>> the data is on there.  I even know the inodes used by most of the
>> files and file sizes.
>> 
>> Thanks in great anticipation,
>> Tim Bowden
>> 
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