My tape drive makes back its cost...

[Ben Pfaff]

Nick Lewis <lewis@cscw.msu.edu> writes:

> On 16 Jun 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> >> jk, good to hear this instead of "How the hell do I undelete in
> >> Linux?!?!?!AAAARGH" hehe
> >
> >I've been there and done that too.  hehe?
> 
> Ok, i'll bite. How do you undeleted in Linux on an ext2 fs?

I used a boot floppy and debugfs and a hastily written utility
that greps disk blocks for interesting strings and saves them to
another device.

This was years ago BTW.

> (Other than restoring off of backup media.) I see a mention to
> Undelete Utilities on freshmeat from
> http://amadeus.upr.clu.edu/~undelete/, but has anyone used
> them?

I haven't used them, but I'm sure that if there are tools for it
then they are better than what I used.
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