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fincoop
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
Posts: 143
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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:00 pm Post subject: Howto: Recover deleted files on ext3/4 |
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Having hastily/accidently deleted many files.. i searched long and hard for an undelete solution. I struggled to find any other howto on the net. I have this to share, but was unable to verify it. Im my case it did restore a file that was about the same size, but the file was corrupted. I hope that it brings your files back, should cost you nothing to try it.
Commands needed: extundelete, debugfs. The former I definitely merged but was masked. The latter may have been existing in my Gentoo install.
Procedure:
| Code: | $DEV = storage device where deleted file was
# Remember to stop any processes that are attached to this volume before continuing
mount -o remount,ro <$DEV>
debugfs <$DEV>
In Debugfs:
cd <directory where deleted file/dir was>
ls -d
# Note the inode of the deleted item that comes up in the list
quit
Restore:
cd <directory where you want the file recovered to>
extundelete --restore-inode <inode num above> <$DEV>
#If your file recovered, then:
mount -o remount,rw <$DEV>
# Start up processes that use this volume
# Else, you should leave the volume mounted RO and try to find some other recovery methods
# This method is exhaustive, make sure you have plenty of space on the target
extundelete --restore-all <$DEV>
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Happy hunting. |
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dberkholz
Retired Dev
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Posts: 1008
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| There's a few other options in the tree too, in app-forensics/ — magicrescue and foremost have both come in useful. |
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orange_juice
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Joined: 16 Feb 2006
Posts: 588
Location: Athens - Greece
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Thanx! It worked charmingly!
Kind regards,
orange_juice |
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