I've by mistake rm'd a file... And it's one of those files that can't be rewritten . I did a lot of research and discovered that the 'inode' of this file is '1963637'. Is there ANY way possible to somehow recover this file? Or even to read out it's contents?

Thanks!!

If you buy a copy of Seagate Data Recovery and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING has been written to the drive since maybe.

I've written to the drive since (downloading various 'recovery' programs). I can't unmount the drive because it's my root.

Is there a free way to get it back? I got a program called 'exeundelete' and it found it, but failed to recover it.

Is there a free way to get it back? I got a program called 'exeundelete' and it found it, but failed to recover it.

Probably answered your own question there.

Once you written more than a single SMALL file to the drive you may as well consider the deleted file totally unrecoverable, I've had success with Seagate recovery even after files have been deleted and the drive written to but it has to be done almost immediately, or the drive taken out of service immediately.

To be honest I've NEVER found any free recovery software that does the job well enough.

I got it! It was actually rm'd, but after excessive usage of the 'find' command, I finally found it in /home/.Trash-0/files/!! Woot!

Note to future Googlers: /home/.Trash-0/ is 'sudo-protected', so you'll need to 'sudo nautilus/dolphin' into it.

Hours of work, saved!!