Quoting Brent Frère <Brent(a)BFrere.net>et>: No, Brent. AFAIK mc is only able to recover ext2 But to not damage the partition, mount it as Brent said read-only, so that the filesystem is not able to write on it and allocate the inodes to new stuff. The textfile has a certain signature. You have to search this signature and with a little chance, you will find the whole file again. If the partition wasn't heavily filled, it's possible that the file was not fragmented. A time ago, I had the same question, because I accidently deleted photos on an ext3 filesystem. Alain provided me some tools, so ask him about those. Unfortunately, I don't think to find these tools again at home but..... Hope to help you. Al ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

"Q: How can I recover (undelete) deleted files from my ext3 partition? Actually, you can't! This is what one of the developers, Andreas Dilger, said about it: /In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a crash, it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks the inode as "deleted" and leaves the block pointers alone./ /Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been deleted and hope for the best." (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html) / Sorry to have forgotten to send to the mailing list again. IMHO, the list should be the default reply-to: but however ;) The only method I found out about was indeed grepping your hdd for the text file: i.e.: ~ # grep --binary-files=text -30 "#include <stdio.h>" /dev/hda3 > output (-30 being the # of lines output before and after the found line) cheers, David Brent Frere wrote: