[CentOS] undelete

Jim Wildman jim at rossberry.com
Thu Aug 10 14:18:48 UTC 2006


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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