[ale] Again with the filesystem recovery SOLUTION?

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:53:12PM -0600, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> 
>>Ext2 is easier to undelete. I have only met 2 people that say they can 
>>undelete ext3 (I am sure one of you will throw in your hat now - but you 
>>weren't to be found when I was ranting about losing data that I didn't want 
>>to lose) - whereas even I undeleted from ext2.
> 
> 
> I see that Geoffrey is going to try deleting a file from an ext3
> filesystem, then remount the same partition as ext2 and try to recover.
> That should be interesting :)

I created an new ext3 partition.  I copied a handful of files there.  I 
removed the files.  Unmounted the partition. I converted the ext3 
partition to ext2.  I remounted the partition.  I attempted to use the 
ext2undel tool to recover the missing files.  It found no files. :(

You might be able to convert an ext3 partition to ext2, but that doesn't 
mean you'll be able to recover lost files.

the next test would be to create files on an ext3 partition, convert it 
to ext2, remove the files and then try to recover them.  I would hope 
this would be successful.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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Think about it...

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