Thanks.  This HOWTO is great.  I actually found a current version of lde and played with that for more hours than I should have, but to no avail.  I didn't perform the most important step, unmount the partition.

If anyone is interested lde can be found at:
http://www.datafoundation.org/lde/

It is a nice piece of software that took me a little bit to understand.  I recommend playing with it before you have a file that you absolutely need get deleted.

Thanks.
 -Gordon



Eden Li wrote:
> 
> The first thing you want to do is unmount the filesystem that file
> resided on so no data will be written over it.  Below is a HOWTO
> on how to undelete files from ext2 file systems.  Give it a
> read.
> 
>  - http://linux.com/howto/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Eden
> 
> Gordon Chamberlin <glac@visualizeinc.com> wrote:
> > Ok, I finally did it.  I deleted a 18 meg file that I really needed.  DOH!
> >
> > It is my understanding that with disk editors I can retrieve, some if not all of the file.
> >
> > Does anyone have a good recommendation for an ext2 editor useful for getting lost files?
> >

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