[OT] bootable ext3 recovery cd?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:38:07PM -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> Last week I ran update/upgrade on my Debian box, and one of the packages
> updated was samba.  It appears that the new samba decided to remove user
> 'samba' from my system, along with samba's home directory, which
> happened to contain all my shares.  I shut the machine down as soon as I
> realized what had happened.
> 
> Anybody know of a good bootable recovery CD with an undelete utility?

ext3 zeroes inodes on deletion, so I'm afraid the only way to undelete
(as far as I know) is by trawling through the raw disk for stuff you
recognise or by restoring from a backup.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]