[TriLUG] file recovery utility for ext2?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Oct 9 03:26:44 EDT 2003


On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:

> I wanted to follow up on the undelete topic in case anyone else checked  
> the list archives. As it turns out the filesystem in question was ext3,  
> not ext2, and all of the programs that worked in ext2 don't work in  
> ext3.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2001-March/msg00050.html
> 
> Not knowing anything, one would think it'd be easier to undelete a file  
> with a journaling filesystem, but apparently not. :-(

so you could always transform the filesystem back to ext2 with
the "tune2fs" command.

rday




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