[ale] recovering an ext3 drive

ChangingLINKS.com x3 at ChangingLINKS.com
Sun Jan 19 12:42:22 EST 2003


No, fundamentally data that is written to a hard drive (regardless of the 
filesystem) is always recoverable right after it is written. EXT3 does not 
magically destroy the data - it just doesn't make it easy (for you and I) to  
get back yet. In my opinion data recovery is a drawback of Linux. There is no 
*easy* to use tool for recovery *any* Linux format (that works well) yet.
-- 
Wishing you Happiness, Joy, and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

On Sunday 19 January 2003 11:02, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> If the data you are trying to recover has been deleted with "rm", you
> basically have no chance of recovering the data short of atomic force
> microscopy. EXT3 makes data recovery from a bad delete effectively
> impossible.
>
> On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 11:45, Mike Lockhart wrote:
> > I'm sure this question has been asked before, but what is the best way
> > to recover data off an ext3 drive?
> >
> > -- Mike
> >
> >
> >
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