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Re: [PLUG] Recovery 2.5GB of deleted files
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sean finney wrote:
> hmm... i'm guessing that you don't have another 400GB of free space
> to dd a binary image of your partition? that's usually the very
> first thing i do in a situation like this. and yes, there have
> been quite a few of those as i rm -rf a lot and sometimes my
> fingers don't type in teh order they're supposed to :)
True. I don't have 400GB to spare. Although I might be able to pull
off software RAID0 with a pair of 200-300 GB drives. The biggest
challenge will be not buring out the 200W power supply.
Fortunately, I picked up one of these
(http://www.byteccusa.com/product/USB/bt-200.htm) nifty little things
a while back, which has a PS that can give me an extra 50-60 W to
work with in limited situations, like this.
> we'll afaik you're screwed as far as the "easy way" goes, as ext3
> does not provide any kind of undelete functionality (the list of
> blocks owned by an inode disappears when the file does).
That's why I didn't start this last night. I know I am screwed and I
know it ain't gonna be easy. ;)
> so... exactly what kind of data/how much data/how many files are we
> talking about here?
They are JPGs from 500kB to 3MB in size in I-dont-know-how-many files
from 1.5 years of digital photography and 1 year of traditional
photography converted to digital. I'd love to get them back, and am
willing to put the work in, but it won't kill me if it's hopeless.
> you might want to look back in the plug archives for a thread about
> "undo mkfs" in which i (and others iirc) gave some advice for what
> to do in these "worst of all situations" situations.
I vaguely remember the thread... using dd to image the partition.
Thanks for the pointer.
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