.TH RECOVER 1 "November 4 1999" .SH NAME recover \- recover a deleted file .SH SYNOPSIS .br recover [device] [options] .SH OPTIONS .br -h, --help prints help .br -a, --all no filtering; dump all deleted inodes .SH DESCRIPTION .B recover recovers a file which matches some ext2 - info about the deleted inode by getting all the deleted inodes and filtering them. It's based upon the Ext2Undeletion-howto by Aaron Crane. Using this utility, your chances to recover a lost file should increase a lot. .SH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELETED FILE o Hard disk device name .br o Year of deletion .br o Month of deletion .br o Weekday of deletion .br o First/Last possible day of month .br o Min/Max possible file size .br o Min/Max possible deletion hour .br o Min/Max possible deletion minute .br o User ID of the deleted file .br o A text string the file included (can be ignored) .SH BUGS Please note that recover does not work with ext3 filesystems, it is strictly ext2-only. For further information on this, please read /usr/share/doc/recover/README.ext2only .SH WARRANTY There is no warranty. .SH SEE ALSO .BR debugfs (8) .SH AUTHOR Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be) .SH WEBSITE http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover