[SOLVED] - A vain hope of help undeleting a file

[TheBigAmbulance]

Does anyone know how to undelete a file in an Ext4 file system? I just realized that a bunch of files in a folder disappeared. It's been a while since I used these files last.

I'm fairly certain that the partition has had data written back and forth since then.

Are the files considered a goner? Is it worth trying anything?

[lmilano]

Re: A vain hope of help undeleting a file

Hi, of course you searched in the Trash folder already, right?

[vinnywright]

Re: A vain hope of help undeleting a file

if your like me and allwase use the shift>delet probley not ......if you dont check the trash...

hears a program I found in synaptic that mite help ...magicrescue

never used it but thar ya go

VINNY

[Qqmike]

Re: A vain hope of help undeleting a file

And/or, try PhotoRec (it is part of TestDisk)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
But it doesn't look like it supports ext4 yet ... ?

[skunk]

Re: A vain hope of help undeleting a file

On an ext3 filesystem, I have used a utility called ext3grep (in the repos)

I'm not certain if there is an equivalent for ext4 though

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: A vain hope of help undeleting a file

Thanks for the advice guys...

No, there was not an entry in the "Trash" folder. I'm really hoping that it wasn't a stray 'rm -rf' command that I put in that may have gotten rid of it.

By luck, it happens to be a perl file I created a while back. So I'm doing the following trying to get it back:

user@user: sudo magicrescue -d /media/Kingston/ -r /usr/share/magicrescue/recipes/perl /dev/sda5

It found one perl file...

Found perl at 0x5031826FE
score +10 for 0x00
Score too high at 21526759578
10 > 9
/media/Kingston//0005031826FE-0.pl: 8603 bytes

But that wasn't it. It's still running. I will see what I find passed that.

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: A vain hope of help undeleting a file

It found the file!!!

I recovered the lost file that I was looking for.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU for helping me get this file back. It wasn't going to crash my system, but it was something I did not want thrown away.

[vinnywright]

Re: [SOLVED] - A vain hope of help undeleting a file

sweet nice to know that one works some wat if I ever nead it.

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Re: [SOLVED] - A vain hope of help undeleting a file

magicrescue

Ubuntu Manpage: magicrescue (Karmic)