[Discuss] Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

> 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