[urgent] How to undelete a file

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Fri Jul 21 06:10:21 UTC 2006


ยท Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com>:

> hi,
> 
> I have just delete a video I was reading with totem. Totem still 
> continues to read it So I think it's reading it from bytes on the disk . 
> So I should be able to recover it .

Not really. The kernel still knows which inodes are used, but as 
soon as Totem closes the file, this information is lost.

> Do you know how?

It's close to impossible. Simply forge

> I googled it and   
> find a lot of windows tools doing that, so I suppose it's possible on 
> linux.

No.

> My partition is a fat32. 

Ah! That's an important information. With fat32, you actually might
have good luck. But I don't know a tool.

Alexander Skwar
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