[ale] undelete on ext3

[Christopher R. Curzio]

ext3 is identical to ext2, with the addition of a journal file.

I've had good luck with the undelete utility in Midnight Commander. Give
that a shot.

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Thus Spake "ChangingLINKS.com" <x3 at ChangingLINKS.com>:
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:54:44 -0400


> "Why this does not work with ext3 
> 
> In general, ext2 and ext3 are compatible file systems: You can mount an
> ext3 fs as ext2 and even use the ext2 low level utilities like debugfs.
> However, ext3 behaves in a different manner in one crucial point: If a
> file is deleted, its inode data are removed, too. Especially, the list
> of data blocks is lost; so it is not possible to recover any deleted
> file. "
> 
> Is this true - or can datab be undeleted from ext3?
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