On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Lance Davis wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, James Marcinek wrote:
There are also 3rd party file recovery utilities (usually not free). If the blocks do not get overwritten then it may be possible to recover the file. I used a product call Stellar Phoenix before which indicates that it works on linux file systems.
The only way that it could (on ext3) would be to do a brute force search, and then reconstructing large or binary files would be near impossible.
The information just is not there to work from .
Regards Lance
I've used the tools mentioned here
http://www.fish2.com/tct/help-recovering-file
in the past. Painful, but it works.
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