On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 15:56 +0100, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > Thanks! :-) > > at least I knew something about recovery tool but I > couldn't use that. The recovery tools that comes with > are commercial and only contained demo version which > can only show that which files can be recoverd. > Anyway I got my files recovered in my friends windows > xp machine. > > By the way I am wondering why there is no file > recovery tools in linux while there are plenty of > recovery tools available for linux file systems (e2fs, > e3fs) in windows platform. Linux users don't do any > mistakes like what I have done? > I am very glad you got your files back, at any rate. Well, while I don't think there is a shortage of undelete utilities that run on Linux, you will find there are far more programs out there that deal with backing up data. So, I think the mindset is, keep current backups, so that if you accidentally delete a file, its a trivial matter to recover from a backup rather than mucking around with inodes and raw data. With that being said, there are still a few utilities that will undelete files on a linux file system that run in linux. I have used midnight commander and it works pretty well. There are other utilities here: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+undelete+files I don't think there is a linux tool to recover files from a vfat file system, because the assumption is that if you have a vfat FS, then you must be using it to share files with windows, and there are enough windows utilities for that as it is. Micheal
