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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine