Re: how to recover deleted files?

From: Mike McCarty (mike.mccarty_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 10/04/05

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    micheal wrote:
    > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 08:45 +0100, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
    >
    >>Hi,
    >>
    >>I accidentally deleted some important files in my
    >>linux box (using rm -f option). Is there a way to
    >>recover those files? The deleted files were in
    >>different partition "fat32". I could have recovered
    >>the files from windows if I was using duel boot but
    >>unfortunately I am using linux only (FC4 with some
    >>fat32 partition mounted) so I need linux tool to
    >>recover deleted files.
    >>
    >>Any suggestion most welcome
    >>
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    >
    >
    > The best suggestion I can think of, since the filesystem is vfat, would
    > be to download and burn a copy of bartPE, which is a windows based
    > LiveCD. Depending on the version you download, there should be a file
    > recovery program included.

    Good suggestion, however (from the website)...

    Requirements to build:

        1. The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
           Supported Windows versions are:
               * Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service
    Pack 1 or higher)
               * Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service
    Pack 1 or higher)
               * Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
               * Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
               * Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
        2. PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.
        3. CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.

    If he had one of these Windows versions running, he could use that to
    (try to) recover. But...

    >
    > If you are not running Windows, I would suggest you convert the "fat32"
    > partition to ext3/2. Fat32 is a windows partition and linux utilities
    > that might undelete a file are pretty much non - existant, Not to
    > mention shortcomings in fat32 like lack of security attributes for
    > files/directories, limit on partition size, limit on file size, etc.

    I am not aware of any way to "convert" a VFAT to ext3 short of
    tar (or cpio, or etc.) everything up onto another medium,
    reformatting, and then untar (etc.) to get the data back. Do
    you? It might be a useful tool.

    Mike 

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