Best File System to recover files?

mezoko · 2005-12-23 23:27:07

Well what is the best file system to recover files?

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-23 23:43:21

I'm not sure what the best is...

I do know, however, that it is not ext3. Ext3 is apparently designed to make it difficult to recover deleted files... Good for office machines, bad for desktops, I suppose.

mezoko · 2005-12-23 23:44:27

Yeah I just found out that ext3 sucks

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-23 23:54:09

Well, actually, ext3 with dir_index is very fast. It does seem that pacman gets fragmented on it faster than on other filesystems, though.

But yeah, it's very difficult to recover files on ext3, so if you need to recover stuff don't use it.

iphitus · 2005-12-24 01:24:42

best one i know of is csfs, common sense. be careful in what you delete, or use the trash and review what you delete.

ext2 is about the only one you can use for recovery, and put simply, you dont want to use it.

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-24 01:38:51

Well, IIRC there is a semi-reliable way to recover stuff on ReiserFS, but yeah... What iphitus says generally does apply.

mezoko · 2005-12-24 03:06:51

iphitus wrote:

best one i know of is csfs, common sense. be careful in what you delete, or use the trash and review what you delete.
ext2 is about the only one you can use for recovery, and put simply, you dont want to use it.

Well the thing is that I cut and pasted files of a mem card to my server. The file browser I used was showing that the files still existed on the card. So I went to delete the pictures on the card but I accedently deleted the ones on the server thinking that the window I was deleting was the mem card.

Any ways what is the best way to replace rm so it will remove it to a place like /trash?

iBertus · 2005-12-24 03:31:55

You could always write a little script to mv the files to a default location, something like ~/.trash or /trash. The only advantage of doing this over just using mv is that you wouldn't have to do 'mv /file.1 /trash/file.1' everything you could just do 'my_rm /file.1' and save a few seconds.

If you use GNOME or KDE then you should be able to just use their file managers and get this behaviour by default. The best way to not have a problem is to just make more than one copy of a file and be super careful when using removable media.

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-24 13:40:24

Libtrash is already in the repos... Try that.

mezoko · 2005-12-24 13:49:04

^^^
Ok thanks I'll probably have to compile that b/c it is for my server which is running on debian but it might also be useful for my box

Snarkout · 2005-12-24 16:17:09

I don't have a lot to add except that people who say these forums are going downhill/are screwed up are nuts. At most other forums I go to there would have been at least 5 one page diatribes on the subject of backups, all written in a condescending tone, somehow suggesting that everyone should have some sort of realtime rsync setup going that backs every shred of their info to seven places across the globe, and that anyone who doesn't do this is a goddamned fool. Either that or they bitch about how thin never happens to them on (insert non-linux os here) and that it's obvious that FOSS isn't anywhere ready for the desktop, and besides they never liked all of us linux zealots anyhow and they'll be glad to get back to their superior OS.

Here, instead, not only are people not 1337er than thou, they actually post some useful info.

mezoko · 2005-12-24 16:46:19

How exactly doe slibtrash work. I remove some file I didn't need but i can't figure out where they went I did trashon it probably obvious and I"m just missing it!

test1000 · 2006-01-08 15:09:37

isn't there some .trash or something in your home dir? maybe i remeber wrong from my days using 'trash' with rox filer.. anyway, man libtrash?

test1000 · 2006-01-08 15:23:20

oh and fat would probably be a good file system for recovering files although i remember seeing a file recovery system on the INSERT linux rescue cd(best one that is) that worked on ext3 or maybe it was only ext2.. can't say for sure.. Check the contents list on the INSERT site to find the file recovery prog and try it..

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