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[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Is ext4rat still a thing? That would be a nice tip for anyone running the system on hdds

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 29 minutes ago

What's ext4rat? Web searches don't turn anything up and I must have missed out on whatever it is, or was. (Which wouldn't be the first time.)

I did find a Python script called ext4ract which apparently pulls files out of an ext4 filesystem, but it doesn't seem to be a hugely well-known tool and I'm not sure how it's relevant here.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 points 35 minutes ago

it's as old and out-of-date as the systems you'd be wanting to use it on.