Recovering Deleted Files on ReiserFS3?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 1, 2003 @01:23PM from the who-said-unix-doesn't-need-an-undelete dept.

DarkSarin asks: "I have a rather serious problem: I managed to accidentally delete some files (rather important ones at that!) while trying to back them up to cd (I was using a GUI burning software that will remain nameless for now). How do you recover accidentally deleted files in Reiserfs? This thread (started by me) indicates that you can't recover them. Note that I had found a way to rebuild the tree, but that didn't work. It seems odd to me that you wouldn't be able to recover accidental deletions, but that really does seem to be the case. Help? Please?"

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Stop!!! by zulux · 2003-12-01 13:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

Take the filesystem offline. NOW!

Then use dd to copy the partition to another partion/disk. Then mess with the copy.

A lot of silesystems do a good job at keeping files and their blocks in order. I've had luck with *BSD file-system by grepping for somthing at the begining of the file and grabbing a big chunk of data afterwords. This works great for MS Office Documents, JPEG or anthing that begins with a known preamble.

This may not work for your filesystem.

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