[Wylug-help] Undelete and the perils of GUIs

[Dave Fisher]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 05:38:26PM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote:
> In the absence of any vestiges of file metadata on disk, the only
> option for recovering files from ext3 is essentially to grep for data
> that you happen to know is in the specific files you want to recover.
> 
> Sorry the news is disappointing.

No worries, the thought of undeletion was only a possibility that I
thought I aught to consider.  I'm fairly sure that nothing vital has
been lost.

Thanks for enlightening me on ext3 ... like many users, I've never
bothered too much about understanding how it does the journaling thing.

Dave