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[ILUG] disk grep

[ILUG] disk grep

Glen Gray slaine at slaine.org
Wed Sep 29 16:01:41 IST 2010


On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:26, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> On 09/03/09 00:57, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> laurent wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Just found the following tool this morning after deleting some files
>>> without enough coffee in the tank.
>>> 
>>> ext3grep
>>> 
>>> Saved me a lot of grief.
>>> 
>>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html
>>> 
>>> (as i stopped as soon I messed up recovery was 100%)
>> 
>> Didn't work for me when I tried.
>> Details and an alternative here:
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk_grep.html
> 
> Can I just plug this again.
> I accidentally overwrote a text file 5 mins ago,
> and it's already recovered, and others in the office here
> have had success with it recently.

Yes, I can vouch for that. I accidentally deleted the wrong .src.rpm I was working on. I used disk_grep to find the updated patch files I'd had in the source rpm and managed to recreate the source rpm

--
Glen Gray
<slaine at slaine.org>






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