Re: recovering deleted files

On Saturday 19 August 2006 22:02, Damien Hull wrote:
> A friend of mine called me this morning and said she deleted a file she
> needed. I set her up with Xubuntu and ext3 for the file system. In the
> end I told her it was a lost cause. However, I did do some searching on
> the off chance there was a way to recover the file. Here's what I
> found.
>
> NOTE: Some of these tools could damage your file system. Don't blame me
> if you try this and loose data in the process.
>
> Good how to on recovering files on ext3 file systems
> http://linux.sys-con.com/read/117909_2.htm
>
> The Sleuth Kit or TSK is talked about in the above article. There is an
> Ubuntu package.
> http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/index.php
>
> Here's one guys trip down recovery lane.
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=441914
>
>
> Most of the instructions I ran into were ext2 related. Those
> instructions won't work on ext3. It seams each file system stores data
> in different ways. Each requires a different method of recovery. If you
> don't have an ext3 file system I recommend you do some searching before
> tampering with the file system.
>
> I've never tried to recover a deleted file. I'm tempted to delete a
> file and try to recover it just to say I've done it. It would also
> force me to learn about cylinders, heads and sectors. I don't know
> anything about them.
>
> It all sounds like secret NSA stuff to me. Like I can see what's on
> your drive even after you delete it. If someone gets to try this before
> me let me know.

I noticed Gnome & KDE use a Trash icon/folder. Probably moving files to
Trash instead of a delete is closer to the Windows experience.

Recover deleted files from your backup ;-)

-- 
Greg Madden
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