Ext3 / XFS Undelete program

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Hello world,
although not really gentoo-specific... Does anyone know if there is any undelete program for ext3 or (even better

) xfs ? After accidentally rm -rf some important files (and lots of hair lost

) I'm desperately seeking for something like that.

meyerm · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 6:07 pm Post subject:

There is an ext2-undelete. But it is said to be useless with ext3. Look f.ex. at http://e2undel.sourceforge.net

Perhaps it is usable when the fs isn't corrupt? You should perhaps make a dd copy and then just try it. :-)

For xfs there is no undelete and will never will be. The fs just doesn't allow it. (f.ex. all none allocated blocks are zeroed etc.)

HTH
Marcel

MackS · n00b Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 5

http://www.m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash

It won't restore the files you've already lost, but it'll certainly prevent that from happening again.

MackS