EXT2FS - Extreme Recovery Tools(tm)
Unlike what the subject suggests, this page does _not_ offer any
readily made tools for recovering a totally corrupted ext2fs
filesystem.
Instead, a tool for poking around (and copying data from) a corrupted
ext2fs partition (with very spesific corruption; 4 bytes from beginning
of each 512 byte block) is provided. A knowledgeable Python hacker may
be able to do a lot more with this, however.
Requirements:
- Python 1.5.2
- My Python library MS (available here)
- The ext2recover package itself (available here)
Usage:
- Install Python
- Open ext2recover package
- _Into_ ext2recover dir, open the ms library
- Edit ext2view.py as needed
- Start ext2view.py with 'python ext2view.py'
- Use the several commands available to process disk image (cp,
ls, ll, ..) within the program. Copying data is possible only
_from_ image _to_ real filesystem, possibly recursively (-R)
Markus Stenberg
Last modified: Thu Jul 29 13:45:03 EEST 1999