The Avid Coder

Well as the lengthy title of this article indicates, this will be my attempt to give an overview of how to recover deleted files from an Ext3 partition. First off let me say that it is not at all easy to recover deleted files from an Ext3 file system. If you are primarily a Microsoft Windows user you might not even know what the Ext3 file system is and if you have any file recovery experience on the Windows platform you might also be asking yourself why I am making any fuss about deleted file recovery. After all on Windows it is mostly easy. You download some piece of software, like R-Studio NTFS, and then you click here and there and its done. Some of you might recall recovering deleted files on an Ext2 file system. If so you will probably have noticed that it is not really much more complicated than recovering files on Windows. Unfortunately there is a big difference in the way files are generally deleted on the Ext3 file system when compared to other file systems.

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