Morgan Read wrote: > Vivek J. Patankar wrote: >> Dave Stevens wrote: >>> I've been given a Ubuntu disk that has had some files erased. >>> Immediately after >>> erasing them the drive was pulled and stored. I propose to mount it >>> under FC6 >>> and try to recover files. I have the file names. Any pointers? >>> programs? reading? >> I have a good experience recovering files from an almost dead IDE disk >> using R-Tools' R-Linux data recovery tool. It is free (commercially, not >> opensource) MS Windows utility. >> >> http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml >> >> I managed to recover almost all of the content that I wanted to restore. >> > What about on ext3? > M. > > As long as it was properly unmounted, you can treat it as an ext2 file system. A ext3 file system is an ext2 file system with journaling enabled. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!