[CentOS] undelete

Thu Aug 10 14:10:17 UTC 2006
James Marcinek <jmarc1 at jemconsult.biz>

The disk I have indicates EXT3 as a supported file system but I have the 
Recovery suite. However I would not be surprised if it did not work as 
they said.

Daniel de Kok wrote:
> 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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