Re: Undelete files [RESOLVED]

["Alejandro Aguila Sáinz" <alekz@linuxmerida.org>]

Hi, after googling I just found the solution for my problem, actually I also undeleted a lot of pictures that I deleted several months ago, here is the solution (as root):

apt-get install foremost

After foremost is installed restart your system to the single user mode (Selecting it from GRUB) , because in my case after trying two times in regular mode I got a segment violation error, and send:

foremost -t jpg -i /dev/hda -o /home/recovery

Then reboot into regular mode and open the lauch application pop-up (alt+f2) and send:

gksu nautilus

Then just go to /home/recovery and all your deleted JPG files are back, I took like 20 minutes to show all the files because there was 4 GB recovered. This foremost applications it's really cool, you can also recover a lot of files, just check man foremost.

Thanks !

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

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Why do so many people top-post?

On 07/08/08 20:15, Alejandro Aguila Sáinz wrote:
> Yes, and I mounted it to another Debian system and I found the foremost

Excellent.  Without doing that, you are sunk.

> application, it's running right now. I don't know the results yet, so if
> you have another option please let me know.

- From Googling for "undelete ext3", I found:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html
http://code.google.com/p/ext3grep/

> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net

> <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
>
> On 07/08/08 19:45, Alejandro Aguila Sáinz wrote:
>> Hi! Today I just deleted a directory by mistake, it went to the trash,
>> so when I draged it back to my personal directory by mistake again I
>> cancelled the process, and now the directory is gone, do you know if
>> there's a way to get it back? Thanks!!!
>
> Did you unmount the device as soon as the incident occurred?

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