It should not. But it can certainly happen that you accidentally delete a file and you want to retrieve. There are several tools to pay for this kind of operation on FAT32 and NTFS file systems under Windows. Even our penguin offers more than a similar tool to recover deleted files on EXT3 filesystem. One of these is ext3birra, a program for Linux, whose name derives from the nickname of the Italic unmistakably that the programmer has designed.

From what we read on the official website of the project, this valuable program was written in just 5 days and can only recover files deleted recently (within 24 hours).

Here's how to use the s / w:

  • download it from this address
  • extract the files with the usual command:
    tar -jxvf ext3birra*.tar.bz2
  • Change to the directory thus created and run the command:
    make && make install
  • finished compiling, ext3birra to use just run the command:
    ext3birra [device] [output directory]

Here, for example, as you can retrieve files previously deleted from the partition sda1, restoring it to the temporary directory / tmp / recupero_dati /:

ext3birra /dev/sda1 /tmp/recupero_dati/

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