Undelete for reiserfs?

[surak]

Well I just did a very stupid thing and accidently rm -r'd the dir with all my music in it. Yay. Anyway, I happen to use reiserfs and after some googling, could not find any file recovery tools or methods. But I've tried to limit disk activity and am pretty sure the files still exist in some form or another. debugreiserfs -D /dev/hda4 | grep "Pink Floyd", gives me output like:

[asimon]

It seems there are not that many reiserfs gurus in this forum. But there is a reiserfs mailing list on www.namesys.com where all the reiserfs gurus hang around. Maybe you find help there. If you do a search in the archive there you can find some postings where people did get their deleted files back with something like 'reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --scan-whole-partition'.

Cheers,
Andreas

[c_kuzmanic]

Be prepared that 'reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --scan-whole-partition' might cause more problems than fix them. I learned this the hard way when I accidentally deleted my /etc directory. The best thing to do is to use a script that replaces the default rm command and moves everything that is deleted into a user-defined trashcan. There are several such 'safe-undelete' scripts floating around, try freshmeat or sourceforge.

[c_kuzmanic]

Ok, here's a very simple script I made which will move any files you may want to delete to a user-defined trash can. To install, simply copy the script below into a file, name it rm-s and copy it into /usr/bin.


#!/bin/bash

# Configure options below

TRASHDIR=/home/master/Desktop/Trash # Path to trashcan directory, in this case my kde trashcan

# Main Program

E_WRONGARGS=65


if [ -z "$1" ];then
echo " Usage: `basename $0` [filename]"
exit $E_WRONGARGS
fi

if [ -n "$1" ] && [ -e "$1" ];then
mv -f $1 $TRASHDIR
echo " $1 has been moved to $TRASHDIR"
exit
fi

if [ ! -e "$1" ];then
echo " File $1 does not exist!"
echo " Usage: `basename $0` [filename]"
exit $E_WRONGARGS
fi

[c_kuzmanic]

And here's a very fancy and easy to use trash can script:

http://www.yoursitemaster.com/open_source/projects/trashcan/