[ale] Midnight Commander's undelete

phrostie pfrostie at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 20 07:09:10 EDT 2002


did you unmount the partition first?

--- "ChangingLINKS.com" <x3 at ChangingLINKS.com> wrote:
> Not to be argumentative. Below is a note from someone saying that Midnight 
> Commander will not work on ext3.
> 
> I installed "mc" and got it to run. I found the Undelete selection under 
> "Command" I hit it, typed in hda5 (the partition I wanted undeleted) and it 
> said "undelfs error: Could not open file /dev/hda5" then, "Error: Could not 
> chdir to /#undel:hda5"
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> -- 
> Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> Drew
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> 
> 
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ext3-users/msg03628.html
> 
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:19:31AM -0400, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > how about midnight commander, does anyone know if it will still undelete?
> 
> Midnight's undelete has the same limitations as debugfs, since it's
> using the same approach.
> 
> The real problem is that ext3 isn't saving the block numbers in the
> inode after the inode is deleted, which means that the debugfs and
> midnight commander undelete schemes can't work.
> 
> If you use e2image to save snapshots of the filesystem metadata, you
> can use that to recover from deleted files that existed before the
> e2image metadata snapshot was taken.  The real answer though is to
> keep regular backups of your data....
> 
>                                                 - Ted
> 
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