From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [SOLVED] (was "Re: Restoring filenames from partly damaged ext4-filesystem") Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:47:14 -0700 Message-ID: <63EF8E19-8A47-4372-96FD-0963F0F4D272@dilger.ca> References: <1328804993.34330.YahooMailNeo@web132403.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <1328981610.63291.YahooMailNeo@web132402.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <20120211183006.GC13189@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rudolf Zran , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , "debian-user@lists.debian.org" To: Ted Ts'o Return-path: Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca ([24.71.223.10]:17086 "EHLO idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754471Ab2BKSrS (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:47:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120211183006.GC13189@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2012-02-11, at 11:30 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:33:30PM +0000, Rudolf Zran wrote: >> Hi List! >> >> In an offlist reply someone recommended me ext4magic (see >> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ext4magic ). > > I wasn't familiar with ext4magic, so thanks for recommending it. > After taking a quick look at its wiki page, it looks like worthy > successor to ext3grep (which only works on ext3 file systems). It > appears from their web page (I haven't had a chance to play with it > yet) that it uses a variety of techniques to recover data, which > combined should work really well. Looks interesting and useful... I wonder if it makes sense to include this into e2fsprogs at some point, so that it is available when users need it most... Cheers, Andreas