NAME¶

recover - recover a deleted file

SYNOPSIS¶

recover [device] [options]

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help prints help
-a, --all no filtering; dump all deleted inodes

DESCRIPTION¶

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.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELETED FILE¶

o Hard disk device name
o Year of deletion
o Month of deletion
o Weekday of deletion
o First/Last possible day of month
o Min/Max possible file size
o Min/Max possible deletion hour
o Min/Max possible deletion minute
o User ID of the deleted file
o A text string the file included (can be ignored)

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

WARRANTY¶

There is no warranty.

SEE ALSO¶

debugfs (8)

AUTHOR¶

Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be)

WEBSITE¶

http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover