Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-18 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 08:38:26AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Reco writes: > > > But you don't need "testdisk", you need "photorec". > > Which Debian package do I install for that? > > $ aptitude search photorec > $ echo $? > 1 | tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search photorec | testdi

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Finney
Hans writes: > Maybe "scalpel" or "foremost" may help. I will try ‘scalpel’ soon. The ‘foremost’ documentation leads me to believe it wants to dump a whole lot of stuff somewhere. I don't want that (the files should be restorable in-place, if at all; that's what ‘testdisk’ did the last time I u

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Finney
Reco writes: > But you don't need "testdisk", you need "photorec". Which Debian package do I install for that? $ aptitude search photorec $ echo $? 1 -- \ “I have a map of the United States; it's actual size. It says | `\‘1 mile equals 1 mile’. Last summer, I fold

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-18 Thread Hans
Maybe "scalpel" or "foremost" may help. You should dd the whole disk to a file, if possible. Good luck Hans > Because there is not any. But you don't need "testdisk", you need > "photorec". > > Reco signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-18 00:58, Ben Finney wrote: Howdy all, How can I recover files deleted on a ext4 volume, in a logical (LVM) volume? I've never done that but seen people have copied the disk then looked through it for anything looks like the deleted files. Think the important thing whatever yo

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-17 Thread Reco
’ to discover and recover > deleted files. However when I try now, the tool apparently gets confused > that there's no partition table. Because there is not any. But you don't need "testdisk", you need "photorec". Reco

Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, How can I recover files deleted on a ext4 volume, in a logical (LVM) volume? I accidentally deleted a tree of directories and files, after completing a move of those files from elsewhere :-( In the past I have successfully used ‘testdisk’ to discover and recover deleted files

Re: rsync; Shouldn't Deleted Files be Deleted on the Backup?

2010-12-13 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-12-13 13:22:17 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Joao Ferreira gmail writes: > > that is exactly what --delete does. I've been using it for some time and > > it works just fine for me. > > Problem is solved. If you have the b flag as one of your flags > as in "backup," it apparently insures

Re: rsync; Shouldn't Deleted Files be Deleted on the Backup?

2010-12-13 Thread Martin McCormick
Joao Ferreira gmail writes: > that is exactly what --delete does. I've been using it for some time and > it works just fine for me. > > are you sure it is not working ? that is strange... I am not sure what is happening yet but now that I know it should work, I will se if I am not groupin

Re: rsync; Shouldn't Deleted Files be Deleted on the Backup?

2010-12-13 Thread Martin McCormick
Joao Ferreira gmail writes: > that is exactly what --delete does. I've been using it for some time and > it works just fine for me. Problem is solved. If you have the b flag as one of your flags as in "backup," it apparently insures that once a file is there, it does not go away. This could be ver

Re: rsync; Shouldn't Deleted Files be Deleted on the Backup?

2010-12-13 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 12:09 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I really like rsync but I have something set wrong. It copys the > file system perfectly but if I delete a file on the master, I > really want it to delete on the backup system. > > I tried --delete, --delete-during and --delete-after wi

rsync; Shouldn't Deleted Files be Deleted on the Backup?

2010-12-13 Thread Martin McCormick
I really like rsync but I have something set wrong. It copys the file system perfectly but if I delete a file on the master, I really want it to delete on the backup system. I tried --delete, --delete-during and --delete-after with no effect. Can I do the incremental backup that effects o

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread green
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-07 08:48 -0500: > green writes: > > These 4 options have been mentioned: > > 1. remount hda6 readonly > > 2. umount hda6 > > 3. reboot to LiveCD > > 4. immediate power-off (pull the plug) > > The fifth: tell photorec to perform the writings into hda8. If I underst

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 09/07/2010 11:02 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: Again, where you run the program is essentially irrelevant - what matters is where files are written to. If the program writes to the current directory, then you must cd elsewhere, but if not, you could run from a dire

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 09/07/2010 08:12 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> if I do: `# cd /mnt/hda8', and run photorec from hda8, we avoid the possible >> damage caused by the reboot or the shutdown, and also we don't touch hda6. >> Is that true? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Again, where you run the program is essen

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-07 06:12 -0500: >> I'm in hda6, the partition containing the deletes files. When I reboot into >> a live CD or into another partition of the hard disk, say hda8, as far as I >> know - but maybe I'm wrong - during the reboot the system will write reports >> in some

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 09/07/2010 08:12 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: When I reboot into a live CD or into another partition of the hard disk, say hda8, as far as I know - but maybe I'm wrong - during the reboot the system will write reports in some files of hda6, which we don't want to. Booting a live CD should not

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread green
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-07 06:12 -0500: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > > If it's major, why so much resistance in following the advice that has been > > given? > > Beacuse: > > I'm in hda6, the partition containing the deletes files. When I reboot into a > live CD or into another par

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread green
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 22:21 -0500: > To do as you suggest, I have to log out hda6 and reboot into hda8, otherwise > mount won't umount hda6 because it's busy. Won't the reboot worse the damage? The system is probably writing logs to the disk. But I don't know what your partition sc

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread green
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote at 2010-09-06 06:59 -0500: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >...And: suppose I had only partition hda6 on the hard disk: even using a live > >CD, as suggested by other listers, where could recovered file have > >been stored, > >since we don't want to write o

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Thanks for anyone's help: part of the deleted files was rescued. Today I'm fetching a new hard disk on which to continue the search, because I have many partitions on the present hard disk ando so there isn't enough space left in each of them to store all the files found by photore

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
it is better if you unmount the partition with deleted files, or at least remount it read-only. If it is busy, stop the processes that have open files in it (see lsof and fuser programs). While it may cause writes to the system, it's better that simply pull the power cord and risk f

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, Rodolfo Medina wrote: ...And: suppose I had only partition hda6 on the hard disk: even using a live CD, as suggested by other listers, where could recovered file have been stored, since we don't want to write on hda6? You'd have to get another place to store the files -

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-06 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, > Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 16:54 -0500: > > To avoid that risk, would it be all right, from within hda6, just cd > to hda8 and there perform writes? Is the machine in question still booted and running with hda6 as /home? I would shutdown, use a liveCD, mount hda6 as ro, and hda8 a

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 16:54 -0500: >>> The deleted files are from partition hda6: is it all right if I run >>> photorec from partition hda8 and store there the recovered files, _without_ >>> performing _any_ writes in hda6? green writes: >> You c

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 16:54 -0500: >>> The deleted files are from partition hda6: is it all right if I run >>> photorec from partition hda8 and store there the recovered files, _without_ >>> performing _any_ writes in hda6? green writes: >> You c

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 16:54 -0500: >> The deleted files are from partition hda6: is it all right if I run photorec >> from partition hda8 and store there the recovered files, _without_ >> performing _any_ writes in hda6? green writes: > You can ensure that

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread green
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 16:54 -0500: > The deleted files are from partition hda6: is it all right if I run photorec > from partition hda8 and store there the recovered files, _without_ performing > _any_ writes in hda6? You can ensure that no writes are made on hda6 by ru

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:54:30 +0200 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 05:55 -0500: > The deleted files are from partition hda6: is it all right if I run > photorec from partition hda8 and store there the recovered files, > _without_ performing _any_ wr

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
cant, use a livecd for example sysresccd [2] (can be used from a > CD or USB stick) and use photorec from that. The deleted files are from partition hda6: is it all right if I run photorec from partition hda8 and store there the recovered files, _without_ performing _any_ writes in hda6?

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:55:49 +0200 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > By mistake, I deleted most files from my sister's home directory via > rysnc and ethernet cable. Please suggest any way to possibly recover > at least some of them. I would pull the drive out of the system and put it in your machin

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread green
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-05 05:55 -0500: > By mistake, I deleted most files from my sister's home directory via rysnc and > ethernet cable. Please suggest any way to possibly recover at least some of > them. First, make sure you do not make any writes to the filesystem which contains /hom

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 09/05/2010 10:02 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: How can I copy the program in the damaged directory without permenently overwriting the deleted files? Don't try. You must run any recovery program from another disk. Only this way you maximize the chances of recovery. By the way, the ea

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Lisi
gest any way to possibly recover at > >> least some of them. > > > > Try photorec. Search the archives for "/home/user folder accedentally > > removed". It was just a couple days ago. > > How can I copy the program in the damaged directory without perme

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Try photorec. Search the archives for "/home/user folder accedentally > removed". It was just a couple days ago. How can I copy the program in the damaged directory without permenently overwriting the deleted files? Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 12:55:49PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > By mistake, I deleted most files from my sister's home directory via rysnc and > ethernet cable. Please suggest any way to possibly recover at least some of > them. > Try photorec. Search the archives for "/home/user folder accede

Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
By mistake, I deleted most files from my sister's home directory via rysnc and ethernet cable. Please suggest any way to possibly recover at least some of them. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
PS. and I personally would: - either write a program that scans the partition for known fragments of the files you want to be gone (perl with Sys::Mmap is an efficient choice) to verify; - or backup all good files from the partition, then overwriting the block device, recreate the partition and co

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
Why calculate the sizes when you can just use cat until it stops because the disk is full? cat /dev/zero > /mnt/yourfilesystem/thebigfile BTW don't forget to proberly umount /mnt/yourfilesystem afterwards, of course, to force a sync. (Just in case there might be a file system that doesn't send t

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-17 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-07-16 23:43 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 16 iul 10, 21:03:42, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > perl -e '$bytes = int (1e4 + 1e6 * rand); > > for $n (1..$bytes) { $noise .= chr (int (rand (256))) } > > while (print $noise) {}' >/mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin; sync > > dd if=/dev/random o

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 16 iul 10, 21:03:42, Andre Majorel wrote: > > If you're feeling paranoid, you could fill with junk instead of > NULs to protect against any optimisation at filesystem level. yep, that sure looks like junk > perl -e '$bytes = int (1e4 + 1e6 * rand); > for $n (1..$bytes) { $noise .= c

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-07-15 13:55 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 15/07/10 01:38 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scd bs=1M > > Yes, but that would wipe out everything, the OS as well. > > I was looking for just making the already deleted files > unrecoverable by a

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 02:25 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Yeah, I guess you could write a bash script to: 1. determine the amount of free space. 2. Divide that by some efficient block size. 3. dd if=/dev/urandom of=${VFAT}/foo.bar \ obs=${BLKSIZ} count=${BLKCNT} Coincidentally, that is exactly what I did (but

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 02:03 PM, Mark wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, H.S. wrote: On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows inst

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/16/2010 12:38 PM, H.S. wrote: On 16/07/10 01:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I don't think you can of= just the "empty" parts of your partition. Attached is a Python script I use to "zero" out the free space of a mounted partition. Thanks for the script. You are basically writing 0xFF to th

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, H.S. wrote: > On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> Aren't you askig the wrong list? >> >> > The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using > Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but > could b

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/16/2010 01:42 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > This is rather a philosophical question than a technical one: it is part of > UNIX mentality to have simple tools that can be put together to complete > complicated tasks. Practically seen, if the

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 01:42 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: This is rather a philosophical question than a technical one: it is part of UNIX mentality to have simple tools that can be put together to complete complicated tasks. Practically seen, if the original poster was educated with the principles of UNIX de

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 16 of July 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 07/15/2010 08:46 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs, > > zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm > > have the same result. > > You c

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 01:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I don't think you can of= just the "empty" parts of your partition. Attached is a Python script I use to "zero" out the free space of a mounted partition. Thanks for the script. You are basically writing 0xFF to the available disk space. I used to ha

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/16/2010 11:10 AM, H.S. wrote: On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but could be any generic storage devi

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/15/2010 06:45 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > Anything, and I repeat anything, is recoverable, even if you remove the > filesystem you can recover pieces of the file. [citation needed] When you do a low-level write to the disk, you're wiping out anything and everything. One single pass of zeroe

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but could be any generic storage device. So, no. I presume you are imp

Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/15/2010 11:05 AM, H.S. wrote: I have a couple of hard disks in a computer which is to be recycled. I want the windows OS in it to remain functional, but I want to be sure that I have deleted all my personal files securely (never used the OS that much anyway and there is hardly any importan

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread green
Mark wrote at 2010-07-15 15:55 -0500: > Do you have an example of what your wipe and wipe2fs commands are that > you've used? Didn't see much info on the websites here > [2]http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ or here $ man wipe There are even examples. > [3]http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cklin/wipe2fs/. Would

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/15/2010 08:46 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs, > zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm have the > same result. > You could say this about many

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 7/15/2010 4:53 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 07/15/2010 11:55 AM, H.S. wrote: >> I was looking for just making the already deleted files unrecoverable by >> a casual user. In other words, since a deleted file frees the space on >> disk, by filling up the disk with all ze

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Thursday 15 of July 2010, green wrote: > thib wrote at 2010-07-15 13:13 -0500: > > Take a look at shred (coreutils), wipe and secure-delete. > > +1 wipe; I have used it to wipe an entire block device. > Also wipe2fs for zeroing unused space; and zerofree seems very similar. I a

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/15/2010 11:55 AM, H.S. wrote: > I was looking for just making the already deleted files unrecoverable by > a casual user. In other words, since a deleted file frees the space on > disk, by filling up the disk with all zeros and then deleting that zeros > file would be overwriting

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Mark
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:41 PM, green wrote: > thib wrote at 2010-07-15 13:13 -0500: > > Take a look at shred (coreutils), wipe and secure-delete. > > +1 wipe; I have used it to wipe an entire block device. > Also wipe2fs for zeroing unused space; and zerofree seems very similar. > Do you have

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread green
thib wrote at 2010-07-15 13:13 -0500: > Take a look at shred (coreutils), wipe and secure-delete. +1 wipe; I have used it to wipe an entire block device. Also wipe2fs for zeroing unused space; and zerofree seems very similar. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 15 iul 10, 13:55:21, H.S. wrote: > > I was looking for just making the already deleted files unrecoverable by > a casual user. In other words, since a deleted file frees the space on > disk, by filling up the disk with all zeros and then deleting that zeros > file would be

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Mark
ng > of mounting these on /mnt/scd1 (and scd2) and then doing: > # dd if=/dev/zero > /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin; rm -f /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin > > and the same for scd2. The idea is fill the partition with new data thus > overwriting any deleted files' data that is lying around. Would t

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread thib
Take a look at shred (coreutils), wipe and secure-delete. -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c3f4fd1.50...@stammed.net

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
> and the same for scd2. The idea is fill the partition with new data thus >> overwriting any deleted files' data that is lying around. Would that be >> adequate? The objective is just to prevent a casual recovery, reading >> and copying of the data by a future user, so I d

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
nt/sdc1/zeros.bin; rm -f /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin >> >> and the same for scd2. The idea is fill the partition with new data >> thus overwriting any deleted files' data that is lying around. >> Would that be adequate? The objective is just to prevent a casual >> recovery,

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
t. I was > thinking of mounting these on /mnt/scd1 (and scd2) and then doing: > # dd if=/dev/zero > /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin; rm -f /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin > > and the same for scd2. The idea is fill the partition with new data > thus overwriting any deleted files' data that is lying aro

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ng > of mounting these on /mnt/scd1 (and scd2) and then doing: > # dd if=/dev/zero > /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin; rm -f /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin > > and the same for scd2. The idea is fill the partition with new data thus > overwriting any deleted files' data that is lying around. Would t

simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
dc1/zeros.bin; rm -f /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin and the same for scd2. The idea is fill the partition with new data thus overwriting any deleted files' data that is lying around. Would that be adequate? The objective is just to prevent a casual recovery, reading and copying of the data by a future user, so

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > commands from Debian OS? I'll just agree with Johannes here: if you value your data enough to try and recover deleted files, then you *should* *really* be doing regular backups. Hardware failures do happen.

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > shampavman skrev: >> If I were you , I would write a simple wrapper for rm. >> Here is what I would do. >> if rm or rm -r is encountered, create a local dir somewhere call it >> 'Mytrash' then mv the files over there.. instead

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
shampavman skrev: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Israel Garcia wrote: Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY commands from Debian OS? The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data from the last backup. There are various backup

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread shampavman
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Israel Garcia wrote: > > Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > > commands from Debian OS? > > The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data > from the last backup. There are various bac

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Israel Garcia wrote: > Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > commands from Debian OS? The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data from the last backup. There are various backup m

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Tebbit
Israel Garcia wrote: > Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > commands from Debian OS? > Debian Reference Ch. 10. http://tinyurl.com/yg2qa98 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

RE: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-15 Thread Kushal Koolwal
apt-get install testdisk and then use command: photorec Kushal Koolwal I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/ _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http:

Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-15 Thread Israel Garcia
Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY commands from Debian OS? -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Help with pam - unable to use sudo since something is broken in the config files (deleted files and missconfiged)

2009-05-30 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello , I played abit with ldap authication and dameged my pam.d directory, for example sudo su : /etc/pam.d$ sudo su [sudo] password for user: Password: As you can after authication to the user i need to enter roots password Also root can't switch

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-13 Thread jeffry s
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:08 PM, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jeffry s wrote: > > i think you can try photorec > > it comes with the package testdisk > > > > the name suggest it is photo recovery program. but actually it is not. > > when u run the program. you can choose the file types from t

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-11 Thread KS
jeffry s wrote: > i think you can try photorec > it comes with the package testdisk > > the name suggest it is photo recovery program. but actually it is not. > when u run the program. you can choose the file types from the options > for what type of files you want to recover. > > the bad side i

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11/03/2008, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > > so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card > > appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows > > computer

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-11 Thread steef
Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows computer to run some file recovery program to recover the files. Is there suc

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/03/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would try out dd_rescue first. Read the device (SD card) with > dd_rescue and make an image of it. Then try mounting it and see if the > files are viewable. If not, then you can try out foremost , scalpel or > other similar data recovery tools.

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/03/2008, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > did you try with fsck.vfat? I have from time to time this problem with > my USB hdd. When I take the hard drive from my home windows machine to > my debian laptop somethimes a few GB are missing. I always find them > with fsck.vfat > T

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card > appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows > computer to run some file recovery pr

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread KS
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or >> ..snip > > aptitude search ~Gadmin::recovery > > Some of them seem useful: > > foremost, scalpel, magicrescue > > Never tried any.

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
only find files of types familiar to them. The files that I'm seeking are .amr files (nokia sound files), and there do not seem to be any 'recipies' for them. I wonder how the Windows tools work, as they allow one to browse the filesystem as a regular gui file manager, but they show d

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card > appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows > computer to run some file rec

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
00 MB of the 2GB card > > used, but now it looks like an empty 1300 MB card. > > sudo apt-cache show recoverjpeg > > dulev The files are not jpegs. Mostly .amr (Nokia sound) files, but some other types as well. Windows has quite a few apps that can show and copy deleted files, doe

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread dusan . vodopivec
> I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > ... > there such a program for Debian that works with FAT32? The files are > obviously there, as in this case (now) I had 700 MB of the 2GB card > used, but now it looks like an empty 1300 MB card. sudo apt-cache show recove

Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows computer to run some file recovery program to recover the files. Is there such a program for Debia

tiger: howto manage flood of `deleted files' alerts ???

2004-01-04 Thread Michael D Schleif
I have been using tiger for nearly a year. Several months ago, a new test was added in: /usr/lib/tiger/scripts/check_finddeleted Since then, several of my servers are flooded with alerts like this: NEW: --FAIL-- [kis011f] Server [apache] (pid 31863) is using deleted files Yes, I know

recuperar aquivos deletados (rescue deleted files)

2003-07-31 Thread narley
Como faço para recuperar arquivos deletados! How can I rescue deleted files! Be free, use LINUX! Seja livre, use LINUX! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleted files

1998-05-05 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
ion.html among other places. It's slow and painful, but seemed to be partition size independant. The hard part comes when you have to undelete big files. > Lde works fine with the smaller partitions, but it breaks > on the 2.4G partition that hopefully still holds some of the > d

deleted files

1998-05-05 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
lost files. Lde works fine with the smaller partitions, but it breaks on the 2.4G partition that hopefully still holds some of the deleted files. So, here are my questions: does anyone have any experience recovering lost files on Debian on largeish partitions, do I have any other options, other too