[ale] recovering an ext3 drive

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Mike Lockhart wrote:
> Ok, i ran the command "grep -r intercosmos /dev/hdd2", using intercosmos
> as somthing to search for because I know that word is contained in my
> evolution files that were on the drive.  The response I recieved was
> "^TBinary file /dev/hdd2 matches", but I'm not sure how to recover it. 
> I looked thru the grep documentation, but couldn't find anything to help
> me.  Any advice from this standpoint?

How large is the drive?  You could very easily write a small C program 
to read in a buffer and search that buffer for mail header info.

Could do it in perl as well, right Fletch?

Depends on how much you want it back and how much time you're willing to 
put into it.

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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