[Discuss] Ext4, ugh! Re: Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

Edward Ned Harvey (blu) blu at nedharvey.com
Tue Feb 5 08:41:10 EST 2013


> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun
> 
> It's starting to look to me like the bottom line is this:
> 
>   DO *NOT* USE EXT4!
> 
> There are a handful of well-documented utilities available for recovering ext3
> volumes, and pretty much nothing for ext4.  

Well, ext4 performs so much better.  If the only risk is the lack of availability of undelete tools, then I say, the better solution is to use ext4 and backups.




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