[ale] Lessons learned with rm

[Geoffrey]

Charles Marcus wrote:
>>From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 4:09 PM
>>
>>Low and behold I located e2undel.  Downloaded it,
>>built it, ran it and well, my stories got a good
>>end to it.  I was able to retrieve all my deleted
>>files.
>>
>>Nice tool too folks.
> 
> 
> This was on an ext2 partition?  Has the question been definitely answered as
> to whether or not files can be undeleted from an ext3 partition?

The only thing I ever found was not promising, a reference to why the 
above tool does NOT work on ext3:

  In general, ext2 and ext3 are compatible file systems: You can mount 
an ext3 fs as ext2 and even use the ext2 low level utilities like 
debugfs. However, ext3 behaves in a different manner in one crucial 
point: If a file is deleted, its inode data are removed, too. 
Especially, the list of data blocks is lost; so it is not possible to 
recover any deleted file.

http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/usage.html

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charles
> 
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