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. Lance Davis wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Oliver Schulze L. wrote: > >> What I do is mount the ext3 in ext2 mode and use >> mc to undelete all the files in another disk >> > > But ext3 deletes/blanks all the directory info - eg the complete > filename when a file is deleted, so you cant know which inode the file > lives on ... > > Sohow would mc undelete them ??? > > Regards > Lance >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos