dunno about the rest of the info you mention, but I just wanted to say that an ext3 filesystem cannot be "converted" to ext2.

Actually it is an ext2 filesystem, that has a journal.

so : ext2 + journal = ext3

You can simply mount the ext3 partition as ext2 and no journalling will take place. ie. mount -t ext2 /dev/hdawhatever /mnt/whatever

while you can mount ext3 as ext2 undelete still doesn't work (I've no idea why don't ask me).

there is a solution that uses libmagic to try and find files, probably won't work with most plain text files though.

cheers, Alaa

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I once found that it's because ext3 zeros the inodes, I'm not sure whether this is correct or not as I didn't really understand it!

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you can convert ext3 filesystem to ext2 (and vice versa)

unmount the partition you want to convert then enter the following command:

tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdaX

once the conversion process is complete, check the partition for file system errors by entering the following command:

fsck.ext2 -f /dev/hdaX

after the file system check is finished, you can safely delete the .journal file (if one was created).

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I used to be indecisive .. but now I'm not so sure

please, the guy asked how to undelete files, not how to break the filesystem. doing all this won't undelete the files.

Besides journalled filesystems are more reliable. So don't g back to ext2.