recover

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Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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