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joltgen

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Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 14

Datarecovery

Hi, I made a pretty stupid thing while cleaning up. I've written about an application for school and while cleaning up my /home dir i confused the document with the application which was in the same directory earlier and deleted it without thinking :hitting_my_head:... So I'm not to familiar with data recovery in GNU/Linux and my question is: how do I get my document back, is it possible (Ext3)?

//Thanks

Last edited by joltgen (2008-09-06 23:41:49)

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Onwards

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From: Pakistan

Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 108

Re: Datarecovery

There is an excellent ext3 data recovery s/w available from Stellar phoenix, but that's not free

ext3 undelete functionality is *theoritically* not possible. There are rather _long_ and not-so-reliable ways available [on the web] to try an undelete though.

Last edited by Onwards (2008-09-07 00:21:46)

Garns

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 239

Re: Datarecovery

You could give ext3undel a try, it's in the AUR.

Good luck.

joltgen

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Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 14

Re: Datarecovery

Thanks for the tips, I've been unable to get my document back so I'm probarbly going to write it again. The lesson is probarbly to make backups as usual I guess...

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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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Re: Datarecovery

I'll state the obvious...I'm assuming you double-checked ~/.Trash and ~/.local/share/Trash for the file just in case.

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