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fragmede on Aug 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Recovering deleted files using grep

If the file was on an ext3 filesystem, you can use ext3grep, written by Carlo Wood (http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html)

(Grepping your hard drive for file fragments is suggested in the ext3 FAQ - http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html)

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