Ext3 data recovery?


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It would be great if anyone can help me with this, but I had some files in /tmp. I was about to burn these to a disc, but my computer crashed and required a hard reboot. So, now I've lost a bunch of pictures and videos from a camera because I deleted them from the original flash drive (the camera's memory card). Is there any way at all to recover these files? Thanks, and anything would be greatly appreciated.

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They're gone. Ext3 does not recover like NTFS and fat32. Developer Andreas Dilger has said:

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In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a crash, it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas

ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks the inode as "deleted" and leaves the block pointers alone.

Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been deleted and hope for the best.

  h3xis said:
They're gone. Ext3 does not recover like NTFS and fat32. Developer Andreas Dilger has said:

Alright, I think I have recovered the pictures and videos from the flash card. Now I just have to go through all the some 200+ files. Some videos seem like they are not working properly, but hopefully I can figure that out and hopefully all the pictures and videos are recovered. Thanks for the replies.

  • 4 weeks later...
  Radolf said:
Stellar Phoenix Digital Media Recovery-Photo Recovery Software will help you in recovering your lost pictures and videos from the camera. It provides recovery of lost or deleted digital pictures from: Memory Sticks, Flash Cards, Sony Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, SD Cards, MMC Cards, XD Cards, Secure Digital Card, Zip Disks, Mini Disks.

To try the utility: download the demo from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/digital-media-recovery.htm

I'm suspicious that you're advertising a commercial product in your first post :p

This: http://www.stellarinfo.com/linux-data-recovery.htm from the same company might also help

Linuxquestions has a good thread about data recovery which may help: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...ad.php?t=417651

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