[CentOS] undelete

Daniel de Kok danieldk at pobox.com
Thu Aug 10 14:06:59 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 09:37 -0400, 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.

That's very tedious to do. You could find all unreferenced blocks with
some work. But the only thing that you will get from that is just a dump
of blocks. And it is nearly impossible to make something out of that,
considering that there will always be block fragmentation in variable
data.

-- Daniel

BTW. I just looked up their site, and it says "Provides recovery of
*deleted file(s)* for *Ext2* File system only." (emphasis added)




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