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Recover Deleted Files in EXT3: ext3undel

Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 15th Jul 2008 22:49 UTC

The ext3undel utility can recover accidently removed data on ext3 filesystems. Users can recover a specific file by name, or they can restore all files marked as deleted. ext3undel is a wrapper for other recovery programs such as Photorec, Foremost and SleuthKit.

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Nice!

by hollovoid on Wed 16th Jul 2008 05:31 UTC

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2005-09-21

This will make my nast habit of holding shift when I delete something a little less drastic when I realize something important got selected.

I know I know, thats what the trash/recycle bin is for, but at the command line, anything will and does go!

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RE: Nice!

by Knuckles on Wed 16th Jul 2008 09:00 in reply to "Nice!"

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2005-06-29

Yeah I had the habit of using shift too, until I configured konqueror to ignore shift+delete, and I got rid of that crappy habit

But yeah from the command-line, either you have alias rm="rm -i" or you really do have to be careful.

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RE: Nice!

by sakeniwefu on Wed 16th Jul 2008 09:48 in reply to "Nice!"

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2008-02-26

When did that become a nasty habit? I have never deleted a file I didn't want to and I'd rather that than having files I don't need piling up in a system folder. And there never is enough disk space to forget about the "recycled" stuff.
In the nineties it was the "Word" files, in the 00s it was the mp3s, now it is 4Gb DVD images or rips, or in my case 10Gb virtual machine drives - they somehow always manage to fill up your disk drive whatever its size.

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RE[2]: Nice!

by hollovoid on Wed 16th Jul 2008 12:00 in reply to "RE: Nice!"

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2005-09-21

When did that become a nasty habit? I have never deleted a file I didn't want to and I'd rather that than having files I don't need piling up in a system folder.

When your doing system things you shoulden't do after being up for a day and 1/2.

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RE: Nice!

by FunkyELF on Thu 17th Jul 2008 14:39 in reply to "Nice!"

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2006-07-26

Couldn't you set up a bash alias or function where rm is actually mv?

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