Re: [cobalt-developers] recovering deleted files (HELP)

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paul Schreiber wrote:
> 
> > i accidently deleted a user this morning, and i need to undelete their
> > IMAP mail ... how do i do this?
> 
> You don't.
> 
> If it means your job, 

It doesn't. Relax. :)

> you go over and turn off the RaQ NOW.  Don't even
> wait to do a shutdown; just turn it off.
> 
> Then you remove the drive, and set it up on a system that can mount it
> read-only.  Then you search the entire drive, byte by byte until you
> find the bytes that make up the file; they could be scattered all over
> the drive.

I was looking at a mini-howto... which is similar to what you said, but not
quite "byte-by-byte."

http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/linux/slackware/docs/Linux-mini-HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion

woudln't not shutting down damage the filesystem?

I wonder if having a journalling filesystem would have helped here.


Paul

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