Restore the contents of accidentally overwritten file

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From: Alexander List
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:00

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Hi!

Being absolutely stooopid, I did the following: I wanted to make a
backup copy of my .netscape/bookmarks.html file because I have 
spent a week or so collecting material and sorting it. 

Well, Murphy did it again. I was on the wrong machine, and I did an
ftp "get" instead of a "put" and so the contents of my original
bookmark file has been overwritten. When I discovered my mistake,
I have immediately disabled login for users and mounted the
/home filesystem read-only.

I am not so familiar with the internal structure of the ext2 fs, but
I tried to find something with debugfs. All I can find out is this:

---snip---
debugfs:  stat bookmarks.html
Inode: 36732   Type: regular    Mode:  0600   Flags: 0x0   Version: 1
User:   501   Group:   100   Size: 228
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 1   Blockcount: 2
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
ctime: 0x329f5473 -- Fri Nov 29 22:24:03 1996
atime: 0x329c83e3 -- Wed Nov 27 19:09:39 1996
mtime: 0x329f5473 -- Fri Nov 29 22:24:03 1996
BLOCKS:
147724 
TOTAL: 1

debugfs:            
---snip---

I learned that the last modified field was set to 22:24:03, that was 
exactly the time when I commited my crime. Is there a chance of finding
at least _some_ of the lost data?

Again, I have _overwritten_ the file, is it possible to find some
of the data?

Thanks for any help!!!

Best regards

Alex

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Alexander List <alexlist@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
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From: Alexander List <alexlist@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
Subject: Restore the contents of accidentally overwritten file
Date: 1996/11/29
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