448191 Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Anybody has any experience with that? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Overwritten files? No. Deleted files, sort of. Files deleted with rm are just unlinked, but can be recovered until the filesystem uses that space, but overwritten files...nope. Sorry. D: P.S: If you could get back overwritten files, shred would be pointless. xD Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-636190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Was the exact same block on the hard drive written to, or was the name just reused. If #1, it's gone for good. If #2, it may or may not be there. Guessing it's situation 1. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-636303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 I'm afraid your sh1t out of luck (assuming ext3 format). See: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html May be remotely possible, but I wouldnt bet on it. -steve Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-636872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
448191 Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 I didn't get my hopes up, but thought maybe the etx3 journalling could come to the rescue. Oh well. Three days of work lost, worse things have happened. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-636883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
effigy Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Would noclobber help in the future? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-636889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
448191 Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 No, actually I just need to manage file permissions a little better. What happened was I was writing a PHP CLI app (to convert PEAR naming scheme libs to 5.3 namespaced libs), and I occidentally had the source files overwritten when testing... Useful tool though, that noclobber. I'll get that one all the same. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-636896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Yeah, that noclobber option is pretty cool, I've never used it. o_O Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-637047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Wow! Wonder if Windows' shell can do that... I've messed stuff up a ton of times like that x.x. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-637109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Wow! Wonder if Windows' shell can do that... I've messed stuff up a ton of times like that x.x. Lol, Windows shell. Sorry. xD Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-637114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Blerh dunno what else to call it.... Command line or what ever... It's not a shell... But, dunno what to call it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-637132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
prime Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 you can grep to recover files but overwritten files, sorry there is no real way to get them back regardless of some cooperations say that try to get you to buy their secure deletion programs.... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/123181-recovering-overwitten-files/#findComment-644502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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