[Discuss] Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

[David Miller]

SpinRite doesn't care about the filesystem.  It's working at the block
level.  I've used it to recover tivo drives to working order many years
ago.  I'm pretty sure they were ext3.
--
David


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Jack Coats <jack at coats.org> wrote:

> > Have you ever been able to get an undelete tool to work?
>
> I have used SpinRite from Gibson Research but it may not do well on
> ext* file systems, I haven't tried it with them.
>
> ext2 is the basis for ext3 and ext4 (they both SEEM to must add speed
> by cache/logs and disk/cpu overhead) while
> keeping the data when written 'where it goes' in ext2 form.  So if the
> files have been there for a while, just mounting
> it as ext2 might give you a better opportunity for recovery.  But that
> is just a guess.
>
> Years ago we could put on/remove a jumper to turn the drive into a R/O
> drive, if you can you might do that on this drive before something
> accidentally happens to it.
>
> ... Jack
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