[ale] recovering an ext3 drive

[matty91 at bellsouth.net (Matty)]

You can use the facilities built into debugfs to recover inodes, and
the blocks referenced by those inodes. I had a bunch of fun toying
around with the internals of EXT2/EXT3 some time ago. Good stuff!


On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:42, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> No, fundamentally data that is written to a hard drive (regardless of the 
> filesystem) is always recoverable right after it is written. EXT3 does not 
> magically destroy the data - it just doesn't make it easy (for you and I) to  
> get back yet. In my opinion data recovery is a drawback of Linux. There is no 
> *easy* to use tool for recovery *any* Linux format (that works well) yet.
-- 
Matty <matty91 at bellsouth.net>

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