help needed: undeleting files

der.hans plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 20:58:10 -0700 (MST)


Am 01. Jan, 2002 schwätzte Eric so:

> I guess I'm following the mini-howto for undeleting files
> (http://chandra.ph1.uni-koeln.de/linux/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion-4.html).
> I am not getting the results that I apparantly should be.
> 
> First, I umounted /home, the partition where the file I deleted was.  I
> verified it was unmounted I guess in /etc/mtab.  Then, when I go into
> debugfs mode and type lsdel, I show a result of no deleted inodes.  If I
> delete a file in /home, the unmount /home, then do lsdel at debugfs, should
> I not see one deleted inode or more?

I haven't used lsdel or debugfs, but recover has worked fairly well for me a
couple of times.

http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/recover/

or 'apt-get update && apt-get install recover' :)

ciao,

der.hans
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