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 >