Re: how to recover deleted files?

micheal wrote:

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 08:45 +0100, Deepak Shrestha wrote:

Hi,

I accidentally deleted some important files in my
linux box (using rm -f option). Is there a way to
recover those files? The deleted files were in
different partition "fat32". I could have recovered
the files from windows if I was using duel boot but
unfortunately I am using linux only (FC4 with some
fat32 partition mounted) so I need linux tool to
recover deleted files.

Any suggestion most welcome

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The best suggestion I can think of, since the filesystem is vfat, would
be to download and burn a copy of bartPE, which is a windows based
LiveCD. Depending on the version you download, there should be a file

recovery program included.

Good suggestion, however (from the website)...

Requirements to build:

   1. The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
      Supported Windows versions are:

          * Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
          * Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
          * Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
   2. PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.
   3. CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.


If he had one of these Windows versions running, he could use that to
(try to) recover. But...

If you are not running Windows, I would suggest you convert the "fat32"
partition to ext3/2. Fat32 is a windows partition and linux utilities
that might undelete a file are pretty much non - existant, Not to
mention shortcomings in fat32 like lack of security attributes for

files/directories, limit on partition size, limit on file size, etc.

I am not aware of any way to "convert" a VFAT to ext3 short of
tar (or cpio, or etc.) everything up onto another medium,
reformatting, and then untar (etc.) to get the data back. Do
you? It might be a useful tool.

Mike
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