roll-back / restore old journal in ext3

mackayr · 11-03-2003, 05:47 AM

I have Mandrake 9.1 ppc and accidentally erased my entire home folder on the linux over the network. I know, it's probably far beyond help, but I'll ask anyway. Is there any way to recover, rollback, undelete the old journal. I know the inodes have been erased, since it is ext3 so that method is useless. Please advise.

Thanks,

Rob

LogicG8 · 11-03-2003, 10:54 AM

Depending on what you did immediately afterward there may be
hope. If you immediately remounted the filesystem read only
so as to avoid overwriting anything.

This might help you.
http://www.billjonas.com/papers/undeletion.html

Unfortunately I have to say don't get your hopes up.
I hope you have some recent backups and good luck.