On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Cristian Rodríguez
El 05/06/10 16:16, robert@redcor.ch escribió:
hi there, when reinstalling linux I did reformat the wron partition. it was formated with ext3 and now ext4. I am looking for tools to recover the lost data.
The short answer is no, it is very unlikely that you will recover your information, with luck you will get pieces of your information and have to start searching a needle in a haystack.
mainly emails and such
Use IMAP and you will never have such problem again.
File deletion is foreva.
Such a pessimist! Here's some "data carving" tools. (http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Tools:Data_Recovery#Carving) In general, they work by searching for known file headers then "assuming" contiguous data sectors / blocks from that point on. ext4 attempts to keep 128MB contiguous extents of data together so carving it should be very productive. I'm not sure about ext3. But for small emails stored one email per file, it seems most files will be 4K or less, so they should rarely if ever be fragmented. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org