Lost a hard drive!? Help.

[Jim Herrmann]

I tried to install recover, but it doesn't seem to like ext3 partitions.  I 
think it's looking for ext2 exclusively.  Anyone know how to get it to do 
ext3?  I also found a file undelete in Midnight Commander.  I'm trying that 
now.  It's taking a really long time.  I'll let you know how that comes out.

Thanks,
Jim

On Sunday 27 October 2002 04:23 pm, Steven Elling wrote:
> I've used recover to get files back I accidently deleted.  It worked great.
> I got all my files back and then some.
>
> http://recover.sourceforge.net/
>
> Here is the description from Debian dselect:
>
> Recover automates some steps as described in the ext2-undeletion howto.
> This means it seeks all the deleted inodes on
> your hard drive with debugfs. When all the inodes are indexed, recover asks
> you some questions about the deleted file.
> These questions are:
>   * Hard disk device name
>   * Year of deletion
>   * Month of deletion
>   * Weekday of deletion
>   * First/Last possible day of month
>   * Min/Max possible file size
>   * Min/Max possible deletion hour
>   * Min/Max possible deletion minute
>   * User ID of the deleted file
>   * A text string the file included (can be ignored)
>
> If recover found any fitting inodes, it asks to give a directory name and
> dumps the inodes into the directory. Finally
> it asks you if you want to filter the inodes again (in case you typed some
> wrong answers).