Re: [Hampshire] Ext3 and missing files

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Author: Hugo Mills
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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x5673d100.hantslug.org.uk.2521': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Wed Aug 1 14:07:50 2007 BST
gpg: using DSA key B2C27BC21C335860
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:58:17PM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> On 01/08/07, Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:20:23PM +0100, Graeme Hilton wrote:
> > > I have no idea where it has gone, if it has gone, or what.
>
> >    After that, break out the hex editor and go looking for your data
> > on the disk. There's probably not a lot more you can do at that point.

>
> Desperate situations call for deperate measures ...
> Think of a string that occurs in one/some of your lost files and do a
> grep -100 "SomeString" /dev/hda > /tmp/resultFile #(replace hda with
> your hard disk identifier)
>
> ... should come up with the 200 'lines' around the string and put it
> into /tmp/resultFile ; doesn't help to explain what happened though.


That's more or less what I meant about the hex editor.

Hugo.

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