There is a DOS utility called DriveSpy (www.digitalintelligence.com) to do
this if you are on FAT. I'm not sure what the Linux equiv would be. dd
will get the data, but automatically listing the cluster chains and carving
out the files is a different issue.
Cheers!
-B
On 4/19/06, David L. Crow <crow@orangeblood.org> wrote:
>
> Michael Goetze wrote:
> > So I just deleted a year's worth of .tex files, permanently.
>
> In most filesystems, the files aren't really deleted, just the pointers
> to them. If you haven't changed your filesystem much since this event
> and you really need the data, you can unmount the filesystem and use
> something like dd to pull the raw data off of the device. Then you can
> use an editor to search for known contents and extract it.
>
> Depending on how fragmented your files are, your work will be much
> harder to reconstruct the full files.
>
> If the data is very important, then it might be worth the effort.
>
> --
> David L. Crow Texas! It's like a
> crow@OrangeBlood.org whole other country.
>
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