dot-files on ext3?
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:37 am
Hello all,
I have a Linux-driven RAID 1 (ext3). One drive died, and while recovering with the second disk I accidently deleted folders with some 600 GB data in. Using R-Linux on XP, I recovered roughly 1/3 so far, and had just minor problems with some unimportant files in deep folder structures. The tool works great, thank you very much!!
I noticed now though that a certain file is entirely missing, while everything else in that folder is visible in R-Linux and recoverable. That file had the name ".ptc". When I view/edit the folder where this file resides, I can still see the filename in ANSI view. This is the only file which starts with a dot in the filename I know of, so I can't compare ยด. It was the only file in that folder too, everything else were folders. There is also an /opt directory with various but typical linux data in. On a quick check I couldn't find any dot-files in there, too.
To summarize: A dot-file is not shown while recovering in R-Linux, but I know it's been there.
My question: Is the file lost, or did I just miss a checkbox*? Or is it possible that for some reason R-Linux ignores dot-files?
* I menued and right-clicked a lot though. A search for "dot" in this Forum returned no useful results for me, too.
Any hint would be appreciated! Thanks, cemar
I have a Linux-driven RAID 1 (ext3). One drive died, and while recovering with the second disk I accidently deleted folders with some 600 GB data in. Using R-Linux on XP, I recovered roughly 1/3 so far, and had just minor problems with some unimportant files in deep folder structures. The tool works great, thank you very much!!
I noticed now though that a certain file is entirely missing, while everything else in that folder is visible in R-Linux and recoverable. That file had the name ".ptc". When I view/edit the folder where this file resides, I can still see the filename in ANSI view. This is the only file which starts with a dot in the filename I know of, so I can't compare ยด. It was the only file in that folder too, everything else were folders. There is also an /opt directory with various but typical linux data in. On a quick check I couldn't find any dot-files in there, too.
To summarize: A dot-file is not shown while recovering in R-Linux, but I know it's been there.
My question: Is the file lost, or did I just miss a checkbox*? Or is it possible that for some reason R-Linux ignores dot-files?
* I menued and right-clicked a lot though. A search for "dot" in this Forum returned no useful results for me, too.
Any hint would be appreciated! Thanks, cemar