linux-ext4 - ext4 undeletion question

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Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:42:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Michael B. Trausch" <mbt@...t.trausch.us>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
cc:	mike-mobile@...usch.us
Subject: ext4 undeletion question

(First things first, please keep my cell phone -- mike-mobile@...usch.us 
-- on the cc list, as I cannot easily read mail on my system since it is, 
more or less, crippled at the moment.)

Alright, so I have found myself in a troublesome situation.  I had a 
directory which I accidentally deleted (instead of an identically-named 
directory in *another* directory) and I need to get it back; it was a 
version control repository directory and contains ~150 revisions of a 
project I have been working on this week.  (Ironically, I was preparing to 
back it up today, heh.)

Anyway, is there _any_ means by which to recover files from an ext4 
filesystem?  The utils for ext2 filesystems don't work (not surprising), 
and I am wondering if there is a way to look for deleted files, knowing 
what their name was, and recover them if they are not yet overwritten.  I 
have my home directory mounted read-only at this point so as to minimize 
the chance of the latter, and discovered my mistake nearly immediately so 
I hope that the data are still intact.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

   --- Mike
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