accidentally deleted files--need help restoring on reiserfs

darksarin · 11-23-2003, 03:15 PM

I am using MDK 9.1, with reiserfs as my fs. I accidentally deleted some VERY important files, but cannot recover them.

I tried: reiserfsck --rebuild-tree -S -l rebuild.log /dev/hdb6 (this is my /home partition).

This FAILED to recover the files in question, although it DID recover some. If you have ANY suggestions as to what to do. I have had some ppl suggest that I use Midnight Commander, but AFAIK it only works for ext2.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

fancypiper · 11-23-2003, 04:25 PM

I think you are SOL.

darksarin · 11-23-2003, 05:31 PM

Surely that can't be true. I have tried to find the information everywhere, but without luck.

Somehow, I don't believe it, though. There must be a way to recover these, above and beyond the specified method.

fancypiper · 11-23-2003, 05:49 PM

Of course, you have done the usual Google seach, right?

Tinkster · 11-23-2003, 07:13 PM

And there's always "the hard way" :}

Quote:

from http://recover.sourceforge.net/unix/
Recovering files in Unix

If you really need to undelete a file, that's the way to do it:

grep -a -B[size before] -A[size after] 'text' /dev/[your_partition]

Replace [size before], [size after] and [your_partition] with something meaningfull. Don't know what your partition is? Read the Linux undelete manual!

e.g.: If you want to undelete a letter (+- 200 lines) starting with "Hi mum" which was stored on /dev/hda1 you can try:

grep -a -B2 -A200 "Hi mum" /dev/hda1

Make sure you do this as root (System administrator)

Read the grep manual page for more information!

Read your unix's manual. Perhaps it contains an own undeletion program.

I had success with this a few times ;)

Cheers,
Tink