[ale] midnight commander's undelete

[ChangingLINKS.com]

The very first time I used it, I did *not* umount the partition. It seemed to 
"work" too - it did something. 

If that error invalidates this box - I can re-install. I am on my testdrive.

Next, I read the directions more closely, and I did umount the partion and I 
get the error as illustrated below. Today, I restarted the box and umounted 
and got the same error. I have (of course) created "test files" that were 
deleted - so that I could see them reappear, and none have ever come "back." 
If they came back, where would they go? What to do?
-- 
Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

(opinion: if you are going to have a button that is marked "undelete" and one 
of the steps to undelete is to umount, then - as a decent programmer - why 
not make the button umount before running subsequent commands?)



--- phrostie <pfrostie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> did you unmount the partition first?
> 
> --- "ChangingLINKS.com" <x3 at ChangingLINKS.com>
> wrote:
> > Not to be argumentative. Below is a note from
> someone saying that Midnight 
> > Commander will not work on ext3.
> > 
> > I installed "mc" and got it to run. I found the
> Undelete selection under 
> > "Command" I hit it, typed in hda5 (the partition I
> wanted undeleted) and it 
> > said "undelfs error: Could not open file
> /dev/hda5" then, "Error: Could not 
> > chdir to /#undel:hda5"
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> > -- 
> > Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> > Drew
> > http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
> http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ext3-users/msg03628.html
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:19:31AM -0400, Justin
> Zygmont wrote:
> > > how about midnight commander, does anyone know
> if it will still undelete?
> > 
> > Midnight's undelete has the same limitations as
> debugfs, since it's
> > using the same approach.
> > 
> > The real problem is that ext3 isn't saving the
> block numbers in the
> > inode after the inode is deleted, which means that
> the debugfs and
> > midnight commander undelete schemes can't work.
> > 
> > If you use e2image to save snapshots of the
> filesystem metadata, you
> > can use that to recover from deleted files that
> existed before the
> > e2image metadata snapshot was taken.  The real
> answer though is to
> > keep regular backups of your data....
> > 
> >                                                 -
> Ted
> > 
> > 
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