[ale] Again with the filesystem recovery SOLUTION?

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Geoffrey wrote:

> I'm thinking I'm going to create an ext3 filesystem, remove a file, 
> convert it to ext2 and see if I can recover it.

It won't, at least on current systems. ext3 now overwrites the block
addresses in the inode before it moves the inode to the free inode list. 
Your only solution is grep.

The only way switching might help is if you delete on ext3, poweroff while
the delete is in the journal but not yet flushed out to disk, then power on 
as ext2 and try to recover.

later,
chris
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