NEED to recover a deleted folder on reiserfs, PLEASE HELP!!

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hjlane3 · Post by **hjlane3** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:46 pm

I need some serious help. I had my reiserfs partition crap out on me earlier, so i booted off the livecd and ran fsck.reiserfs so i could recover my data. Everything worked fine. I found out where my home dir was on the restored partition, went there, and went to back it up into another parition. But I fucked up horribly. Instead of mv -rf home /mnt/bkup/ , I did rm -rf home /mnt/bkup !!!!

I NEED to recover my home partition or I"m totally fucked. For the love of pete, can anyone please help me?!?! I absoultely, possitively need to get the data back! the first thing I did when i realized i fucked up was unmount the partition, and remout as read-only.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!! and please refrain from pointing out my obvious stupidy , I know i screweed up big time.
Thanks

-HJ

ectospasm · Post by **ectospasm** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:19 pm

I have no idea if this is feasible for your situatin, but a quick google gave me this:

Linux Undelete

Unfortunately the page is scant on information, so I don't know if will work for reiserfs or not. But it is something to look into.

hjlane3 · Post by **hjlane3** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:24 pm

Seeing as the last release of that software, linux undelete, was in 1999, i doubt I should even bother with it. But thanks for the help!
Anyone else??

-HJ

AlterEgo · Post by **AlterEgo** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:27 pm

This has saved my ass once (reiser):

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/backup.dsk
losetup /dev/loop5 /tmp/backup.dsk

reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --scan-whole-partition /dev/loop5
mount /dev/loop5 /mnt/tmp
Restore files

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=69793

hjlane3 · Post by **hjlane3** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:40 pm

AlterEgo wrote:This has saved my ass once (reiser):

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/backup.dsk
losetup /dev/loop5 /tmp/backup.dsk

reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --scan-whole-partition /dev/loop5
mount /dev/loop5 /mnt/tmp
Restore files

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=69793

Ok, doing it now. Luckly i have an external 30GB hd i can dd to. I hope to god this works..
THANK YOU!

-HJ

hjlane3 · Post by **hjlane3** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:13 pm

YYYYYEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!1
IT WORKED!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Post by **GurliGebis** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:07 pm

Cool, somebody should make this one a sticky

ectospasm · Post by **ectospasm** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:07 pm

GurliGebis wrote:Cool, somebody should make this one a sticky :)

Tell that to a moderator...

mirko_3 · Post by **mirko_3** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:37 pm

Another vote for sticky...

Cossins · Post by **Cossins** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:45 pm

Yes, this should definitely be made a sticky. Linux systems are easy to fuck up badly (if you're root

), but on the other hand they can almost always be fully recovered.

This is a great tip, maybe it should be moved to Documentation, Tips & Tricks?

- Simon

Fillepe The Mexican · Post by **Fillepe The Mexican** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:40 am

I just thought I'd add how usefull this has been. It saved my ass (well mostly) when I hosed about 9gig of various extremely important things by mistake.

Thanks

G2k · Post by **G2k** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:31 pm

*cough* it was pr0n *cough*

pablo_supertux · Post by **pablo_supertux** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:43 am

AlterEgo wrote:This has saved my ass once (reiser):

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/backup.dsk
losetup /dev/loop5 /tmp/backup.dsk

reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --scan-whole-partition /dev/loop5
mount /dev/loop5 /mnt/tmp
Restore files

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=69793

does it function with ext3? Which step may a change for ext3?